Toothless Wonder

It's a happy day when your first tooth comes out!  Mom and Dad take pictures and grandparents get all excited to see that hole in your mouth.  Nothing is more exciting then the thought of the tooth fairy visiting for the very first time!

Annabelle was beyond giddy as she experienced this last weekend.  Jonathan had even dug out his tooth pillow from his parents house that he used growing up - he really is kinda sentimental about passing these traditions on to our little ones.  So tooth came out with slight assistance from daddy and was placed in the tooth pillow for safe keeping.  Annabelle insisted on keeping it locked in her room the rest of the day- she knows her little brother's capabilities lol!  Bedtime rolled around and thats when she brought the tooth pillow downstairs (for whatever reason??).  Sure enough the tooth got lost:/

It was a travesty!  The first tooth ever and it's missing!  We searched and searched until we had to call it off- it was a school night and getting late.  Sadly I tucked Annabelle into bed, insuring her that we would keep looking.  Jonathan and I had already taken apart our over stuffed chair in pursuit of this tiny tooth- upon reinspecting it we found a crumb (possibly a vanilla wafer crumb).  No surprise that the chair held such an item.  And that's where my husband decided that this crumb IS her tooth.  Oh my, yes it is true, we lied to our daughter (weren't we already tho by going along with the tooth fairy scam?)!  She bought it whole heartedly and was so thankful- now at least she could get some sleep.  So the tooth fairy came through the night and left a dollar!  Annabelle even claimed to have seen her and some pixie dust she left behind.  All's well that ends well!

1st one gone!

Annabelle lost another one last night.  Happy to report that it was truly a tooth under her little sleeping head last night!  Another dollar!  She is saving for a singing Ariel doll for the bathtub- at this rate it wont take long!