Well, all of my angst at how to pull Devlin's first loose tooth was solved. (And there were some debates between my husband and myself as to the best method for pulling a loose tooth - tie a string around tooth and yank or bite into an apple?) When I came home from work yesterday, I was greeted at the door with Devlin's new holey grin!
He had pulled the tooth out himself! I'm sorry I missed that particular moment, but it was exciting to see him showing off the gap between his teeth. His first baby tooth to fall out was carefully wrapped in tissue and placed inside the Tooth Fairy Pillow that Grandma had lovingly made.
This morning, my shower was interrupted by an excited Devlin. He pushed aside the shower curtain to show off the "Tooth Fairy coin" as he called it. There was a shiny twoonie in his hands, as he happily exclaimed "The Tooth Fairy came last night! The Tooth Fairy is real! Look what the Tooth Fairy left in the pillow!"
Daddy was running late this morning, but after witnessing his first-born child's excitement over the first visit by the Tooth Fairy, he decided it was well worth the delay.
As they say:
Running late to work - 2 hours of unnecessary stress and backlog of work.
Cost of baby tooth - $2.
Seeing the sheer happiness of a child discovering the Tooth Fairy's gift - priceless.
And for Uncle Billy - the Tooth Fairy doesn't abide by the current rules of the consumer price index or observe the law of inflation. There's lots of teeth in those little mouths. We still have to pay for their education!
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