Boy does time ever fly by! I apologize for not updating this blog in over a month! And it's not that there is a lack of stuff to update on. Julie just reached another milestone in her life's journey.She lost her first tooth!!!
Mommy was especially excited about this! Julie lost her #81 (baby central incisor to the right of her midline) on Saturday, February 24th, 2007.
This tooth had become noticeably loose only a week before. Mommy & Papa told Julie to help wiggle it out to make room for her adult tooth, that was already partially erupted lingually.
On the day it came out, we had gone tobogganing with Uncle Steve, Aidan, Cassidy, and Liam, and we all noticed the gums started bleeding around it. But it wasn't painful or anything for Julie. Then a few hours later, Julie was eating her lunch, and she just put her fingers into her mouth to retrieve the tooth. She looked at Mommy and basically said "Look at this - my tooth came out". Of course, Mommy was excited, so she got the camera right away to capture this important occasion! (And that's why Julie's face is dirty in the picture because we were so caught up in the moment, we didn't wash her face!)
And here is the tooth..............(pretty small, eh?!)
Julie put the tooth in her little pink heart shaped tooth pillow and put it under her pillow for the tooth fairy to collect.
Talk about inflation - the tooth fairy left Julie $5 for her first tooth! Mommy and Papa were sure teeth were only worth at the most $1 (or even less) when they were kids.
Julie decided to buy something from the store with her earnings. So she collected some more money from her piggy bank and headed over to the toy department at Walmart. She found a cute stuffed animal called 'Love & Licks Puppy.' This puppy dog barks, wags his tail, and even gives wet licks with it's tongue! Of course, Julie has name it Charlie, after Tante Gisele and Uncle Marty's daschund. But unlike the real Charlie, this one is a girl dog!!!
Julie is excited about loosing more teeth in the future, now that she knows it doesn't hurt when a tooth comes out, and of course, now that she knows she'll earn a monetary reward for it!!
**(Note to other parents out there - Apparently the first tooth is the most expensive tooth, so the rates do go down somewhat for the rest of the teeth - that is according to our sources!!)**
1 comment:
congrats Julie on your first tooth!!! i remember when Aidan had the molar pulled, he was at my parents place and my mom and dad put about $5 under his pillow. I hope he doesn't think I have to live up to those standards!
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