"It's loose," she complained.
I examined it and sure enough - it's wiggling - a lot.
Just out of curiosity I checked the one next to it and it's loose as well.
She's still 4- won't be 5 until the end of February.
For a moment I was gripped with dread - was there something wrong that was causing her teeth to become loose at such an early age? I kept thinking about my best friend's boy Todd who lost his teeth towards the end of kindergarten and here my daughter is still in preschool and close to losing one!
I checked all the teeth on opposite sides of her loose ones and they are firmly anchored in her mouth - for now.
I'd have to pull out her baby book to see when she got her first tooth, but i think it may have been in her 4th or 5th month, maybe 6 months at the latest. I guess they say that the earlier you get them the earlier you lose them...
Selfishly I'm not ready for this - at all. This means she's growing up and it's just one more piece of her young childhood that is falling away - literally.
The bright side - of course - is that it looks like Santa and the Tooth Fairy are going to have to carpool to our house this year. My bet is that the first tooth will come out around then!
