Last night, conveniently an HOUR AND A HALF past bedtime, my daughter lost her first tooth.
Having a loose tooth was exciting; actually losing it was apparently traumatizing.
The minute her daddy yanked it out so we she would stop making us wiggle it every five minutes it came out, she burst into tears and flew into my arms.
She was inconsolable.
She cried and cried and wailed things like, “I’m just FIVE!”
I figured it out when she looked mournfully at her tooth, now safely ensconced in my traditional Acid-Free, Heirloom-Quality, One of a Kind Tooth Storage Device, aka a zippy sandwich baggy, and sniffled, “I will look at my tooth and remember back when I was a little girl.” **
Ah, to be five and forced to contemplate The Meaning Of Life And The Scariness That Is Growing Up.
I soothed her and petted her and promised I would not make her go apartment hunting the next day; and that as far as I am concerned, she is going to stay with me forever and we will be best friends forever.
Part of me wishes it would come to be true.
Then she must have felt better, because she used the last few tears to try to negotiate me out of calling her “my toothless little old lady.”
I made no such promise.
Obviously.
She said perhaps I could at least say “my PRETTY toothless little old lady.”
Then she asked me to buy her a Dr. Doofenshmirtz doll and went to sleep.
(**yes, I have forbidden her from becoming a telenovella actress)
October 24th, 2012 at 6:52 am
She sounds like a hoot. Just wait until she is 13/14…you will both be saying that you can’t wait for her to move out and you will dream of the apartment that she will be moving into.
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October 24th, 2012 at 7:53 am
My kids like to lose a lot of blood when a tooth comes out. I *think* I’ve wiped it up, but then I see little dribbles behind the toothbrushes a week later. ew!
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October 24th, 2012 at 8:29 am
My 4 year old is very eager to start losing her teeth after her older cousin told her about finding money under his pillow. She’s really wimpy (kinda like her mommy) though so I’m thinking she’s not going to enjoy it as much as she thinks. I used to think the world was going to end everytime I got a loose tooth when I was a kid. One time, I didn’t eat for almost 3 days just because I had a loose (not painful!) tooth. Oh my poor mother…
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October 24th, 2012 at 8:55 am
My mom loves to tell the story about crying on the eve of her 10th birthday because she wasn’t going to be a little girl anymore. I swear, I don’t know…. I must’ve been too busy eating paper or trying to knock the popcorn off my ceiling or something, but it didn’t even occur to me as a child to be forlorn about this kind of stuff!
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October 24th, 2012 at 11:12 am
brilliant
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October 24th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
LOL So cute.
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October 26th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
This is hysterical! I can say that and not feel one bit bad too! My daughter passed out a couple of years ago when I had to pull a molar for her! She will NOT pull a tooth! It has to some way magically find a way out on its own (you know they don’t actually do that right? You do have to actually pull it at some point! Trust me, I know!). She was 13′ish at the time and was eating dinner when her tooth twisted but didn’t come out. There was blood and tears and when I pulled, she went down! I was laughing so hard, but I had enough presence of mind to guide her to the bathroom floor and help her avoid a concussion from the bathtub! She was only down for a few seconds, maybe a minute. When she sort of came back to herself she was like “why am I on the floor?” Which made me laugh even harder! It quickly became one of our favorite family stories! I don’t think she’ll ever live that one down!
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October 29th, 2012 at 5:10 am
Being 5 is the business, isn’t it?
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