Emilie lost a tooth

After weeks of anticipation, Emilie has lost her 1st tooth. Since she's one of the youngest in her class, most of the kids have already lost a couple of teeth. She has shown everyone her loose tooth and has been soo excited that she'd soon get a visit from the tooth fairy. Emilie had been wiggling her loose tooth whenever she could in the hopes of making it a little looser. We'd noticed that it was pretty loose the last couple of days, but she said it hurt too much whenever we tried to pull it. Finally last night while I was helping her brush her teeth, I brushed a little harder up front and sure enough, out it came. She was so excited that while she was trying to spit out her toothpaste, she accidently spit her tooth right down the drain. After a moment's hysteria, we convinced her that the tooth fairy would still leave her a dollar as long as we included a note about what happened. The tooth fairy might even fly down the drain to get the missing tooth. With that, she happily went to bed with her tooth fairy pillow and the note :-) Sure enough, she found a dollar this morning. She's now dying to go to the dollar store to spend it.

She cut that tooth when she was 6 months old. We went out to dinner at El Nopal, and she was fussing in her car seat while we were eating. The only thing I could find in my purse to entertain her with was my Dasani water bottle. She went to work chewing on it, and by the time we left the restaurant, she had a new pearly white tooth poking out on the bottom, and she was no longer crabby. Here she is showing off her gap tooth grin: