Much like Mason, Brynn started the process of loosing her top teeth by prematurely knocking out a slightly wiggly front tooth while playing on the playground at recess back in January. Then April hit and the rest of her top teeth started coming out one right after the other. Brynn is not a fan of pulling teeth so she just wiggles and wiggles until they are practically hanging out of her gums and require little more than a flick of her tongue to fall out. It was always a huge bonus if they came out at school so she could go to the nurse's office and get a special little tooth box to bring the tooth home in. She is now sporting a grin with 4 missing top teeth, a look that only Brynn could make look this adorable.
Shortly after we moved to Omaha 2 years ago, Miles fell off a kitchen stool and hit his mouth on the counter. He bonked one of his teeth pretty hard which led to the tooth eventually dying. As a result, that tooth has always had a slight discoloration to it. But last week when it all of the sudden turned a dark red and he started complaining that it hurt when he chewed his food we took him to the dentist to have it checked. An x-ray showed drastic changes to the inside of the tooth since his last check up just a few months earlier. The inside of the tooth appeared to have completely hollowed out. It was decided that the tooth needed to come out since it posed a great risk for infection. Miles was a champ and was completely calm and cooperative while the dentist numbed his mouth with a shot and then pulled out the tooth. When the dentist grabbed the tooth with his pliers the tooth crumbled into pieces so he had to dig around in the gums a bit to get the roots out. Miles didn't so much as flinch through the whole thing and all without laughing gas, too. The dentist was amazed and said he was one of the best 4-year-olds he'd ever worked on. Miles was ecstatic that he lost a tooth like the big kids and got to leave his tooth (pieces) under his pillow for the tooth fairy.
Speaking of the tooth fairy, you would think with all the teeth we have been providing her the last few months we would have reached VIP status, but our tooth fairy has proven to be very unreliable and has a terrible track record of coming on time. One morning after the tooth fairy failed to visit during the night I found this note under Brynn's pillow with her tooth. I'm pretty sure the tooth fairy felt really guilty for being late so she left some special lip gloss along with the typical dollar for Brynn's cute new smile.
As cute as these goofy little grins may be, I'm hoping that we won't be loosing any more teeth until a few permanent teeth start growing in.
