First Tooth!!!

If you look real close on the bottom row, you can see the little gap from her first lost tooth. She has been wiggling it like a fiend for the past few days and has taken the advice of Caitlin and Devin (wisely) and not let me pull it out. I have pulled several of my older children's teeth because once the teeth get really loose I start getting all nervous nelly and imagine all these insane scenarios where the tooth comes out while they are sleeping and then they choke on it.

Unfortunately both Caitlin and Devin each had one tooth that hadn't quite reached the imminent danger of choking loose tooth level when I pulled it. Needless to say they both bled like a cattle slaughter and since then won't let me near their mouths except to put their rubber bands in. They made a pre-emptive strike with Hannah and warned her about the mommy hysteria and not to let me near her teeth so she wouldn't even let me wiggle it. Instead she chose to stand three steps back (out of tooth pulling range apparently) and show me.

Right now her tooth is in a little bag under her pillow since that makes it so much easier for the tooth fairy. And if my son can't manage to restrain himself and tells her the "truth" about the tooth fairy, then I may have to help him with one of his last baby teeth that seems a little loose. I mean I wouldn't want him to choke or anything.