Well, it has taken "FOREVER" as Emma says, but she finally lost her first tooth! I was so excited because it happened the last week I was on maternity leave - so I was home with her and I so appreciated being able to share that moment with her! The look on her face was priceless! She has (somewhat) patiently awaitied losing her first tooth - while several of her friends were losing them.....I told her it would happen - but I think she doubted me at times! I would often find her looking at her tooth in the mirror - wiggling away - hoping it might come out! When her tooth finally came out - she was so happy and all she could talk about was the tooth fairy! I told her that we would have to put it under her pillow and then the tooth fairy would come and bring her some money....that is when she told me that her friend received $20 from the tooth fairy! I kindly explained that her friend must not live in "our neighborhood" (hee-hee) just kidding - but I thought it! Anywho, the tooth fairy didn't bring $20 - but did bring $5.00....which I thought was generous - heck I think I recieved .50 cents - maybe a dollar back in the day! But I had to laugh at Emma's comment and I thought maybe I should take this time to talk about the economy with her - let her know that during these hard times, even the Tooth Fairy had to cut back!!!! Can you imagine?!?!?! Emma lost another tooth shortly before we went to Silver Lake and we took her money up to town to pick out a "souvenier" and she was looking at a stuffed animal and I told her that if she bought that - she would use all her money - and her response was "that's okay mom, I'll lose more teeth!" Priceless!
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