It has been wiggly for months now, and all it's former neighbors are loose as well. Kai has been quite excited about the impending tooth-fairy's visit, but not enough to really work at getting this tooth out. He let me try tugging on it last week, but it still seemed pretty well attached, and the sensation of having it pulled on kind of freaked him out, so he has been quite reluctant to let us feel it the last few days. Tonight though it was obvious that it needed to come out. So at bedtime Kai finally consented to let me try one more time. He started to fuss as I gently gave a tug, but this time the tooth popped right out. I asked him if he wanted to see it and you should have seen his face! Instantly he quit fussing and his eyes went big as saucers! There was a tiny bit of blood, but he was so excited and proud to have it out that he was all grins!
Here he is displaying the new hole in his head and the special glow-in-the-dark tooth holder the dentist gave him to help the tooth-fairy find her prize.
Tina and I are both very excited for Kai, he's so thrilled to have "grown-up teeth" on the way. Still it's a bitter-sweet kind of happiness, I know they can't stay little forever, and this is a sign that he is definitely growing up. I can't say I'm as upset by this nearly as much as one very jealous little brother whose teeth are all still firmly rooted no matter how much he wiggles at them. Poor Shen, it's tough being the youngest.
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