Can it be? She's only five!! I was not expecting this so soon. So, Hadley has been telling me for a few weeks that her lower teeth were "sore." I really didn't pay any attention to the complaint, just to be honest. But one afternoon she walked up to me and wiggled one of her bottom teeth and told me it was loose. Boy, was it! Loose was an understatement. So I did what any mother of a first born child does when she finds out the child is about to lose his or her first tooth. I cried. I held Hadley and bawled like a baby. Why you ask? Because she's my first and it's like a rite of passage for crying out loud. Hadley and I had a long talk about what losing a tooth entailed. She was nervous about whether it would hurt or not and how much blood would be involved. She wanted me to hold her and asked if she could just live with me and Daddy forever. Of course I told her yes. It was actually a beautiful bonding moment between the two of us; me not wanting to even think about my baby losing teeth and her scared of growing up, too.
I didn't think it would happen so soon, but the very next day she came into my classroom and handed me the tiny treasure box that held her tiny tooth. She had pulled her tooth in her preschool class. Her teachers said she was very brave. She is so proud of that big gap in her teeth and asks me everyday if I can see the new tooth coming in yet. Is it bad that I hope it doesn't come in for a long time? These little reminders of how quickly she's growing up are just too much. But I also realize how blessed I am to get to experience each and every moment.
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