Tooth Wars

In the past month Daniel has pulled out two of his loose teeth. He got tired of waiting until mom & Dad thought they were loose enough to pull and just yanked them himself. I knew about the first one being loose, I didn't know about the second. The first one he told us was loose and working on wiggling itone night and pulled it right out as we were all sitting in the family room watching television. Within 20 minutes he had pulled it! He was so excited he was jumping around, hooting and hollering. It was comical. Two days later, he came racing into our bedroom in the morning "Mama, Mama! I pulled out another tooth!"  Add the fact that the tooth fairy leaves him two quarters for each tooth, loosing teeth has been a big deal at our house.

This photo was of his first lost tooth, back in October:

Tonight when the boys were eating dinner Jack claimed he had a loose tooth. We've heard this claim before, with no loose teeth to show, so we were skeptical. Sure enough, he had a loose tooth! He is only five. Daniel was almost six and a half before he lost his first tooth! Later on that night we were having FHE and we was wiggling that tooth. All of a sudden he hopped out of his chair, claiming it had popped out. Sure enough, it was gone and we searched until we found it. I had to laugh - loose teeth aren't going to last an hour, much less a day in this house!

When we sent the boys to bed that night, they were all excited about the tooth fairy coming for Jack. I guess Daniel didn't want to be outdone by his little brother, so twenty minutes into bed time he pulled another one of his teeth out. We weren't aware that one was loose either! He had better stop or he'll be toothless! He already looks like a hillbilly with (now) 6 missing teeth!