Toothless

So Alyssa has had the trend of having lose teeth for a really long time and then having them fall out as the grown up teeth are growing in, so that her smile never really appears to have missing teeth(the trend holding up for two teeth and the next two seemed to be following the same pattern). Well she had a little mishap this week which broke the trend. On Monday, as I was eating lunch and the girls were playing on the other side of the couch, something happened that caused Alyssa to start crying. When she came over to me, her mouth was covered in blood and one of her top front teeth was missing. My first reaction was a startled intake of breath, which I quickly replaced with a calm reassurance that she would be fine. I grabbed a paper towel and calmly told her that there was a little bit of blood and that one of her teeth was missing. We went over to where they were playing and found it and I showed it to Alyssa. I then got her excited about the tooth fairy coming to visit. She was happy to have the tooth gone as they had been loose for so long and she was tired of wiggly teeth. After she had calmed down, she admitted to me that the tooth came out because she was trying to pick Ashley up with her teeth. I laughed out loud and told her that was a sure way of pulling the loose teeth out. Here is her dangly tooth smile. (the looser tooth wasn't even the one that came out).

She hated having that dangly tooth. It looked really funny too. She wished that it had just come out with the other one. On Wednesday morning, before she went to school, I pointed out the fact that she would be taking pictures with her dance class that night for their dance recital and that it would be really nice if the tooth were gone before that. She wanted Danny to be the one to pull it out, so he did it after they had gotten to her school that morning. It bled some and then he walked her into school so they could get something to put the tooth in. By the time I got there to pick her up, she had lost her tooth. The little tooth carrier that they gave her somehow came open during PE. Her teacher told her that she could write a letter to the tooth fairy and still get her money. So she did, and the tooth fairy left a little note for her in return. Here is her toothless smile.

We figure it will probably stay this way for quite awhile since she pulled the teeth out before they were really ready to leave her mouth.