After months of talking about, worrying about, and wishing for a wiggley tooth, then several months of forgetting about it, Leilani got her first wiggley tooth last Thursday.
I don’t know if it was the stories of the tooth fairy or just her older friends loosing teeth, but for the longest time, Leilani wanted to start losing her baby teeth. She would feel all her teeth and talk about the subject all the time. I was actually afraid she’d push hard enough on her teeth to make them loose too soon.
But out of the blue last week, she felt it while eating and jumped up from the table to dance around. Sure enough, once we looked at it, we saw the bigger tooth coming under the gums below. I have never seen her so genuinely excited so I had to take a picture of that big smile, one of the last still full of baby teeth.
Leilani spent the weekend showing the wiggley tooth to her friends, over and over. I’m sure you’ll hear more about this tooth (and I wonder what the tooth fairy will give her).
