No tooth!

26 days before her 5th birthday, A-chan's first tooth came out! It happened at lunch where the very wobbly tooth got stuck in corn on the cob. Bleeding occurred which kind of freaked her out but she quicly calmed down and wanted to see the gap in her teeth.

I'm relieved that it finally came out. The adult tooth had already pushed through behind it and I was getting just a bit concerned. We also had a near disaster when I forgot to get the tooth off the lunch plate before washing the plate. For a few tense moments we thought I had lost it but finally it was recovered. A-chan washed it and quickly put it into the pink heart on her tooth pillow.

She's very excited about the tooth fairy and asked if the TF could leave a picture of herself behind. She also wants to buy a giraffe with the money that the TF will be leaving, go figure :) Another request was for a picture to be taken of the gap in her teeth and posted on Facebook so that everyone could see it.

The tooth pillow that I made for this occassion is two sided. One had a pink heart pocket and one has a blue heart pocket. It's handsewn out of machine felt and cotton lace. We've been looking forward to using it, even lugging it to DragonCon and AWA just in case :) Tonight's the night!

P.S. The Mystery of buying a giraffe with her tooth fairy loot has been solved. It's because that's what Lola (from the children's series Charlie and Lola) bought with her TF money. So apparently A-chan is convinced that she must absolutely do the same. I'm all for it if that's what she really wants, but I'm glad to know where it came from!