Poor Clara has had to suffer through her twin loosing six teeth before she lost her first one, a bottom incisor, a couple of weeks ago. Along with losing a tooth comes the ensuing celebration, photo taking and Tooth Fairy visit. The latter of which made waiting her turn almost exquisitely unbearable for the poor girl. But at last, her baby teeth are finally coming out.
She lost number two, an upper incisor, this past Thursday. It was hanging on by a thread at breakfast, but she waited until school started to nudge it out with her tongue. If you loose a tooth at school, you get to go to the nurse's office and Clara loves to go to the nurse's office. Girlfriend has gotten herself sent home perfectly healthy twice for faking symptoms in order to lie on the nurse's cot. The nurse tucks her in a little too comfortably and talks to her a little too sweetly and Clara just eats it up. Anyway, when you loose a tooth and go to the school nurse, she gives you a necklace to wear that has a plastic tooth on it. The plastic tooth has a compartment in which to place your lost tooth. The tooth then makes it home safely at the end of the day.
That night Clara carefully placed her tooth under her pillow. And then we all went to bed. At 6 the next morning Andrew remembered that he forgot to take the tooth and replace it with some Tic Tacs and a dollar. As he began to tell me this, Clara walked in our room with her tooth and a stricken look on her face. Andrew, God love him, immediately said, "Oh no! Goose must have slept in your room last night. And everyone knows fairies are afraid of dogs. Remember how Tinkerbell was afraid of Nana? We'll be sure he's not in there tonight." (I am seriously impressed with his on-the-spot BSing skillz.)
So, Saturday morning she woke up happy with her Tic Tacs and one dollar. She and Alice shared the little orange candies and when they finished them, Alice said, "I love those things. I wish we had more." Never one to want to disappoint her sister, Clara reached into her mouth and pulled out the other upper incisor. I kid you not. It was one of the funniest things I've seen. And the tooth fairy had learned her lesson and came that night without a hitch.
And Clara looks just precious. I adore kidlets with lost teeth! And I love to listen to them talk. (Yeth Alith, I can thee you.) She's about to loose the second lower incisor which will mean she'll have all four front teeth missing. I told Andrew I hope her adult teeth take a good long time to grow back.
And, of course, I am wearing out my camera on her!
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