Tooth Fairy Visits

Back in July, the dentist told me that Nathan's top two teeth were starting to get loose. She said that was just a tad early, but not unusual. I was taken by surprise!! I hadn't even thought about him losing teeth yet! Since then, I've been keeping an eye on those teeth so we'd be prepared when the time came. And, occasionally, I tease Nathan that he's "not allowed" to lose his baby teeth because if he gets big teeth, he'll not be my little boy anymore. I've talked this up some, to get him excited about losing his teeth - hoping it would be less traumatic for him. I had no clue how well that plan would work.... until yesterday afternoon...

Nathan, Faith & I were headed to Awana yesterday. Nathan & Faith were in the back seat, talking about teeth. When all of the sudden Nathan calmly says, "Hey Mommy! Mommy, I just pulled my baby tooth out" Um.... what?!? I saw him pinching something between his fingers and noticed his top teeth were still there. So I thought maybe he was pinching a piece of food he scraped off his tooth. 

When we stopped at a light, I was able to turn around and get a better look, because he was pretty adamant that he took his TOOTH out, and it wasn't pretend. Sure enough.... a bottom baby tooth was missing from his mouth!!!!!! It's never even dawned on me to watch his bottom teeth - I assumed that the top teeth would come out first, since they were the first to be loose?! Total mommy shocker!

When we got to church, I got a better look. Sure enough... he pulled HIS OWN FIRST TOOTH OUT! I thought kids were suppose to freak out and make their Daddy's do that job?!? I thought teeth were suppose to be loose for weeks, while kids played with them with their tongue and grossed adults out. I guess those teeny tiny incisors at the bottom are too small to stay loose very long. 

We put his baby tooth in a baggie, and he proudly showed it off to all his Awana leaders and Cubbies friends. And at home, we told him about the Tooth Fairy (though he'd heard a lot about her at Awana last night, too). Nathan told me that the Tooth Fairy was going to drive up to the house, come in his room and take his tooth. She was then going to make it really big so that it could grow back as a big boy tooth. He had no clue that she would leave a surprise in return.

Nathan was curious about the surprise, but he was mostly curious HOW this fairy was going to get into the house, and HOW she was going to get to his top bunk since she is so small. Then HOW was she going to take the tooth out of his bag?!? (He never asked HOW she was going to drive a car.... I thought that was curious since the car driving part was his own idea...hehe)

This morning, Nathan woke up to find his tooth was gone and the Tooth Fairy left a gold dollar coin in return. He's not too excited about the coin. He's mostly just fascinated with HOW did she come into his room without him seeing her. And HOW did she do that "so fast" that he couldn't see? And WHY did she leave him something behind?!? He still likes his coin and already put it in his bank to keep it safe.

Maybe Nathan has his Daddy's engineering brain. He's not so concerned with the "what" or the "when", he wants to know HOW and WHY, and it's bugging him that he can't figure it out ;)

So, Nathan's already looking forward to losing tooth #2. And I want to warn the Tooth Fairy, she'll have to be extra sneaky next time, because Nathan REALLY wants to know HOW she does it!