Mia’s First Lost Tooth
Earlier this week Mia showed us all that she had a very loose tooth. She was incredibly excited over the prospect of losing said tooth, as she has two older sisters, and to her mind a lost tooth put her one step closer to being a “big girl.” Lea is squeemish about such things, and she refused to not only touch it but did not want me to pull the tooth out myself. Mia, on the other hand, wanted me to pull it out as soon as possible.
Mia had gotten the idea that I could pull it out by tying it with dental floss, which I had done with some of Willow’s teeth, so I said I would try. Well, the tooth was very small and slippery, so I had a very hard time tying a not around the tooth securely. As a result, it kept slipping off when I pulled on it. Mia was very sad, but we decided to wait a day.
Mia's tooth is lost
The next day I tried again with the same result. I finally decided to not tie the tooth but rather wrap it with dental floss and, holding both ends, just pull straight down. See, as the tooth was on the bottom, so I figured that if I used enough force in pulling down, it would pull the tooth forward enough to come out. And, as luck would have it, that’s exactly what happened. I tugged, and the tooth came out, landing on Mia’s lower lip. She was thrilled to death. Since then she has gone around showing everyone she meets the gap in her teeth. It is, indeed, the mark that she’s becoming a big girl.
One of the truly funny things about the experience is how Mia handled the tooth once it was gone. She originally put it under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy, but when she woke up she was sad that she had a dollar and not her tooth. She really wanted her tooth back. So the next night she put the money back under the pillow and the Tooth Fairy obligingly returned her tooth. She then carried it with her everywhere. At one point she dressed her tooth up in clothes. Unfortunately, after a few days of keeping it with her, she lost the tooth, and it has yet to be found. Still, I think she would say that trading $1 for a few days of happiness with her tooth was worth it!
