Audrey’s First Tooth Loss

When Audrey went to the dentist recently, she was told that she had three loose teeth. This discovery was so exciting to Audrey and from that day on it seemed like her finger was always in her mouth wiggling some tooth. Jeana and I noticed one tooth was quite loose and of course, we made guesses as to when it would fall out. Audrey and Jeana made guesses within a couple days, and I tried to set the expectation that it may not fall out that soon – so I guessed about 5 days later.

The nurse at her school gives kids a treasure box to put a tooth in if the tooth falls out at school (so the kids can take it home for the tooth fairy). Audrey was totally committed to losing her tooth at school so she could receive the said box. Every time I asked her if I could wiggle or pull her tooth she reminded me she was waiting for it to fall out at school. I told Audrey we could tie dental floss around her tooth and then tie the floss to the top of her bunk bend. Then, I said she could jump off her bunk bed and her tooth would get pulled out. She was not a fan of that idea.

Last Wednesday I was working from home and Audrey came upstairs to show me her loose tooth. The thing was just flopping around being held on by practically nothing. It was disgusting, and exciting. Knowing that she’d probably swallow it if she waited much longer, I told her to try pulling it out by herself. And she did! She was so excited! Since she waited so long to let it fall out, it didn’t bleed (to her satisfaction).

Of course, there was sadness because the tooth fell out at home (Audrey was home sick from school for a couple days), but Jeana responded quickly and made a substitute treasure box to contain the tooth until the tooth fairy could pick it up and take it to the magic land of teeth.