E's first lost tooth

elena's bottom right tooth has been wiggly for some time now.  she's walking around wiggling it with her tongue and it makes lovely squeaky sounds.  she has difficulty biting with her front teeth.  and she obsesses over it 24/7!  :)

we tried a few ways to get it out that were all on the safe side.  she definitely wanted it out, but wasn't willing to do anything drastic and frankly - neither was i!

one day as she was obsessing over it, i was looking at it again for the 100th time as she pleaded.  i noticed the tooth behind it was already up!  we just so happened to be going to the dentist the next day and i explained the dentist may just want to pull that tooth out since her permanent tooth already broke through. when we went to the dentist, the dentist actually just told her to keep working at it....que miss elena going ahead and asking for the dentist to just pull it out!  they yanked it right out and miss e was a happy camper!

sporting a new smile and a whopping $5 from her tooth fairy, tooth-e-taya!  the tooth fairies seem to have all gotten richer since i was losing teeth.  in fact one tooth fairy wanted to leave her $100!!!  thank goodness tooth-e-taya is her tooth fairy and reminded him that she is only 5 years old!!

"If you don't have a smile, I'll give you one of mine." ~Author Unknown