Toothless!

Wow, two posts in a row about how big my little boy is getting. As you can tell from the title, we now have a child that has lost a tooth!

Zach has been complaining for months now about how everyone else in his kindergarten class has had a loose tooth and he's the only one that hasn't. We kept telling him to be patient and not to worry, but it seemed he would mention it at least 10 times a day. Finally, a week or two ago, one of his front lower teeth started to loosen up. After playing with it and realizing that it hurt when you tried to eat with it, he decided he didn't want a loose tooth after all. Of course you don't get to choose on this one, so we've been waiting patiently for it to fall out.

As he and Hailey were outside playing today, I heard one of them mention something about blood. I jumped up from the computer where I was working and ran outside to see what was going on - talk about blood is never a good thing. When I got outside, I found him outside with the tooth in his hand and an extremely bloody grin.

Once we got both him and his tooth washed up and the blood stopped, we took some pictures. "We have to take pictures to put on the blog!" Zach said enthusiastically! So here are the pictures:





As you can see, the other tooth has already popped through the gums and has started to move up. We were wondering when this little baby tooth was going to make room so that the big tooth could come in!

Needless to say, he can't wait until he goes to bed tonight so that he can leave his tooth for the tooth fairy! Congratulations Zach on your first lost tooth - you're getting to be such a big boy!