Haley Lost Her First Tooth (er, Teeth) Today!

Just over a week ago Haley discovered her first loose tooth, the lower left one in the front.  She wiggled it every day and it got looser and looser but still hadn't come out when not even a week later she bit into a sucker and instantly loosened the tooth directly beside the first one.  She now had two loose teeth to wiggle and jiggle and play with. 

She was dying for them to finally come out, and I was dying to finally do what my dad always did when I was a kid - tie a string around them and pull them out.  I tried.  I really did.  But I'm not the tooth puller that my dad was.  LOL  I couldn't even get that string to stay in place long enough for me to do anything but just pull the string right out of Haley's mouth.

This morning she reached into her mouth and the second tooth came out in her hand.  She was elated for a brief second and then the tears started to fall.  LOL  She "didn't want her teeth to come out."  I got her calmed down and excited once more and then off to school she headed, where I suspected the second tooth, the first one to become loose, would fall out.

Sure enough, when she got into the car this afternoon she was all toothless grin.  Here's my growing baby, two teeth less today than yesterday.

Now, on a personal note, this is all strangely bittersweet to me.  No one told me when I became a mother I would become sentimental over baby teeth!!  LOL