A new Tooth Fairy customer!

We finally have another kid making exchanges with the Tooth Fairy at our house! Blair lost her first tooth on Friday (her bottom right)! It had been loose for nearly a month but not with much give to it. She talked about it all the time though, eager for the Tooth Fairy to finally come visit her instead of Reid for a change. Well, early last week, we noticed it went from barely moving to a full-on wiggle! After looking at the school lunch menu, we figured Friday’s hamburger would give it just the push it needed to fall out. Blair, the planner, wanted to prepare for every possible scenario surrounding the loss of this first tooth. “Pack extra napkins, because we only get one with our lunch and we’re not allowed to get up.” I assured her this is one time when she most definitely CAN get out of her seat at lunch. “Pack extra clothes in case it bleeds a lot and I get blood on my clothes and I need to change. I don’t want to wear bloody clothes.” You already have a change of clothes at school. “Tell my teacher that no one can sit next to me at lunch in case it falls out and so they won’t get blood on them.” Don’t worry, there won’t be THAT much blood. So on Friday morning, I gave her tooth a good wiggle, told her that if it didn’t come out at lunch, we’d work on it over the weekend and helped her on the bus. It hadn’t been 15 minutes when I got a call from the bus driver: “I just wanted you to know that Blair’s tooth fell out and we wrapped it in a napkin and put it in her backpack.” !!! She shared the details with me when she got home that afternoon…she was drinking from her water bottle when they hit a bump and the spout hit her tooth, knocking it out. It fell in her lap and it didn’t bleed a lot. She was even eager to show me the bloody tissues she had saved. We put the tooth under her pillow that night and the next morning she found 4 quarters and a shiny gold dollar coin! And she can’t wait to spend it!

I took a “before” picture on Thursday night.

And here it is after it fell out.