Tooth Fairy Time!

Another first with Katelyn has come and gone. Thought I'd share the story and a few pictures of the event.

A few weeks ago, we put Katelyn to bed (likely for the third time of the night!) and she wandered into our room shortly thereafter SOOO excited.

"Look Mom and Dad! I have a loose tooth!" Sure enough her tooth was loose- it was hard to scold her for getting out of bed. She was so excited and so cute. She ran down to check if Ryan had a loose tooth as well. No loose teeth for Ryan- Katelyn was thrilled that she was going to be first in losing a tooth.

The past few weeks she has wiggled and wiggled, had me check how loose it was everyday, have Wes check the loose tooth- everyday and even Debbie got in on the loose tooth action and wiggled and checked. She even got Katelyn a tooth fairy pillow for her treasure.

Tonight was the BIG night- She decided that it was loose enough to be pulled. She insisted that Aunt Bec pull her tooth because she's magic when it comes to that. She had me dial her number. She asked Bec to come pull her tooth and told her that the tooth fairy would bring her a hundred dollars. I'm not sure what tooth fairy Katelyn has talked to, but I'm pretty sure it's not the same one stopping here! She told me that she was splitting the money with Aunt Bec before Bec came over to pull her tooth.

Here is the loose tooth! Notice how nicely it lays flat!Here's Katelyn sitting so nicely while Aunt Bec "checks it out".Whata you know- popped right out! Katelyn says it didn't hurt a bit. She did panic for a second when she realized that it had blood on the end of it- a wet paper towel took care of that. She decided really quick that if the tooth fairy did bring a hundred dollars, she wasn't sharing. Poor Aunt Bec! All that work for nothing!

And here we are- missing our first tooth! She admired the nice hole for nearly five minutes in the bathroom mirror. She thinks that we all need to go to bed early tonight so the tooth fairy can come faster. Hope the tooth fairy can stay up later than the one waiting and watching! I wonder what the going tooth rate is these days...