Tooth # 2

Vivian's second tooth came out, more dramatically but we were luckily able to locate it this time and get it to the Tooth Fairy.  She was upset she had to take a bath and got stuck in her sweatshirt.  In her frustration she bit her shirt and yanked a tooth that was very slightly loose and jarred it.  After hysterics and a popsicle, her tooth was stuck out at an odd angle.  It remained like that for over a week. Finally she wiggled it enough that it got looser.  I tried to pull it out and couldn't, and while she was sitting on the floor we heard a ping, more like a clunk, and her tooth was on the floor.

There were more hysterics as Jack and Chris dove for the tooth at the same time and Vivian found her mouth was bloody.  Luckily Chris got the tooth before the dog.

Angled tooth while Viv models wireframes.

A very decorated envelope for the tooth fairy.

Gappy smile afterward.

Losing a Tooth

Vivian lost her first tooth, quite literally.  It had been hanging on by a thread but she wanted to wiggle it out or wait until it fell out by itself.  She had a friend over yesterday, and as I was upstairs trying to get Lanie dressed (we went no where on the day that didn't get warmer than 7 degrees), I heard Vivian yell from downstairs, "it's gone! It's gone! My tooth is gone! Where did it go?"  

I left Lanie to struggle into her shirt (she likes to do everything "myself" lately, so her getting dressed is a long and tedious process), and went to investigate.  

Sure enough it was gone and no where to be found. We backtracked for a minute, but then Lanie inevitably got stuck in her shirt and started yelling, and the doorbell rang and Vivian's friend's dad and sister arrived to pick her up.  Naturally Jack then got super excited and started to bark and run in circles jumping on everyone.  

After about five minutes of complete chaos, Jack calmed, Lanie continued to yell, no tooth was located in the immediate vicinity, we finally got all of Vivian's friend's snow gear on her from various drying locations.  Then everyone had to look in Lanie's mouth at her "loose bloody tooth," which she has to have to be like Vivian.  Finally the friend left and Sam and Vivian embarked on a half hour hunt for the tooth around the house.  At this point I'd concluded that she most likely swallowed it with her snack or lost it outside in the snow, but it seemed like a good quiet activity to keep them busy.

Lanie's matching photo of her "missing tooth."

Note to the tooth fairy that Sam helped her write.

The house was later canvassed in sticky notes about the missing tooth, just in case anyone came across it I guess?