First visit from the toothfairy!

Emily's tooth has been very loose for several days now, but every time I tried to pull it she would back away from me and start whining that it hurt (even when we put some orajel on her gums first). Daddy has tried too, but she just wasn't ready and we couldn't get her to sit still enough to get a good grip on the tooth. (Those little buggers are difficult to get ahold of!) I even told her that if she pulled it herself I would ask the toothfairy to give her an extra dollar, but she kept saying it hurt.

Anyway, while we were at dinner with Mamaw Linda and Papaw Ron tonight she was showing Papaw how loose it was (I nearly got it pulled out two nights ago so it was VERY loose) and I asked her if she wanted Papaw to pull it for her. She said no, that she wanted her mommy to do it so Papaw convinced her to let me try again once we finished dinner and got back to their house. I had forgotten about it by then, but the first thing Emily wanted to do when we walked in the door was pull her tooth, so I did and it came out after two tiny little pulls.

She was SO excited that it didn't hurt, and she was running around the house showing everyone. It didn't even upset her much when she looked in the mirror and saw that it was bleeding a little bit. I explained to her that it was normal and that all she had to do was rinse her mouth out a few times and if it wasn't done bleeding we would get her a washcloth to put on it. She rinsed her mouth out and everything was fine. She said she was very glad to get it pulled because now it doesn't hurt anymore.

So, I guess that means it's one tooth down, 59 more to go? Yikes, with 3 kids losing teeth at the same time, we will be putting a nice dent in the toothfairy's pocketbook! I think the toothfairy has decided that at our house the first tooth will get $2 and each tooth after will get $1. I wonder what the toothfairy pays at other houses?