One of the rites of parenting passage is when your oldest child begins the tooth loss process.
When the baby is born, you have all of the gross stuff that comes along with it… Diapers, boogers, barf and other unexpected surprises can be disconcerting, but I got used to all of it very quickly.
I wasn’t prepared for the wiggly, cockeyed, flapping baby teeth that sometimes hang on for days, unwilling to come out despite valiant efforts including dental floss, kleenex and sticky or dense foods to chomp on.
Drue had a pretty easy time of her bottom teeth, but her first top front tooth started to look like it was bucking out a bit last week. We laughed all weekend long about it, and every so often she’d allow me to try some other technique I heard about from my Facebook friends.
Last night she decided to write a song about it, which I (of course) put out on YouTube right away.
This morning, it finally popped out when she bit into some Cinnamon Toast Crunch. The tooth fairy paid a visit while I was at work, and apparently left her a note with her $1.
It said “Drue – Congratulations on the tooth! Saw your song on YouTube… Loved it! Love, The Toothfairy.”
I just love how technology has given yet another avenue of communication to our holiday/special event heroes.
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Posted by Heidi @ 3:24 pm
