When you notice your daughter is wiggling her tooth, don’t ask to check it and then pull it out.  She will freak out because it is her first lost tooth, and even though she’s been playing with it for over a week and bugging you to tell her when it will finally come out, she’s truly not prepared for it to be actually gone or the blood. (My God, that was a LOT of blood for such a tiny space.)

Macy got over the initial shock and has now been smiling and showing everyone! She is the last kid in her class to not have lost any teeth, so it is about time. The tooth fairy left her a dollar and a note written in tiny letters. Don’t tell Macy that the tooth fairy had to steal the dollar from Macy’s money! (How bad am I? I knew she was going to be losing it any day and I forgot to make sure I had cash! I almost totally forgot to play tooth fairy- that would have been tragic. Although, not as tragic as Macy forgeting to check under her pillow. How she forgot that until I reminded her I’ll never know. She has been waiting to lose a tooth since the other kids in Kindergarten got to put their names on the board for every tooth they lost.)