"My 2 Front Teeth"

Neta was the first of the last two kids to start loosing her teeth. Her bottom two were growing back when within 12 days, she lost number one...

August 6, 2013

...and then...

August 18, 2013

...number two.

Nate kept asking when he was going to loose a tooth and why hadn't he lost any teeth, being the older brother. Finally, he got a loose tooth. He wiggled it and Eric wiggled it and offered to pull it out with a string and a doorknob, but Nate wouldn't go for it. We tried dinner with corn on the cob and that didn't work. On September 5th, at dinner, guess what Nate found in his food after a bite (on something relatively soft)? 

(I don't know why this won't turn upright.)

Then on .... Eric was at school with Nate, who by now had another loose tooth, hanging on by a thread. At recess, a classmate knocked into Nate's face and pop! Tooth number two. (Again, this picture wouldn't turn around.)

I don't know about other tooth fairies, but the tooth fairy that comes to the Scott house is a bit of a slacker. She rarely, if ever, comes the first night. Sometimes she has had to leave notes of apology because had been on vacation and wasn't able to get to the pillow for a few days. Nate, on the morning after loosing his first tooth, upon finding that his tooth was still in the baggie was a little sad. Xela did a good job trying to explain that maybe the tooth fairy tried to get here, but in all her flying, she got lost or pulled some other direction. It was cute to watch her use her imagination and try to make her brother happy. She's such a good big sister.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, Nate found the baggie with his tooth in it, where the tooth fairy had written with a Sharpie, "Nate - 9/5/13."   "Mom, what's this? It has my name on it?" I quickly tried to change the subject, telling him i didn't know and to put it back where he found it. The baggie has since moved to an undisclosed (as of yet) location. The tooth fairy at our house needs to be a little more on top of things, I think.  :)