Alex's bottom tooth has been wiggly since, what feels like years. He'd wiggle wiggle it all day long, but it wasn't going anywhere. Then I noticed his adult tooth was coming in already, behind his wiggly baby tooth. Like a shark. So we amped up the wiggling, hoping that the tooth would just pop out on its own. The holidays came and went, our trip to Utah came and went, we rang in the new year, and still that little tooth hung on.
We started talking to Alex about pulling it out. His favorite show is AFV (America's Funniest Videos) and they always have a clip or two of a kid tying a string to his tooth and trying to yank it out by some means like a remote control car, door, brick... and we tried to tell him how funny it would be if we tried to do it that way. He kept saying that he'd try later, tonight, tomorrow, tomorrow night... Finally he agreed it was time.
That tooth was a fighter, and John had to get some tweezers to finally get a good grip on it to pop it out. Alex was brave, he was scared, and the little bit of bleeding his gums did freaked him out a lot, but he quickly got over it once he got to hold his tooth in his hand which he thought was super cool.
He asked John to write a note to the tooth fairy asking if he could have his tooth back. He put the tooth and the note in an envelope and put it under his pillow. So excited to go to sleep, just like Christmas. Would the tooth fairy really come? What would she leave him? How would she get in? How could she get it if it was under his pillow?
The tooth fairy did come, left $2 in quarters in a little green bag under his pillow along with his tooth. He woke up in the middle of the night to check, thankfully she'd done the trade shortly before ;)
I got a little sniffly about the whole thing. After all, I remember that tooth coming in!
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