My Children in November, 2009: The Riley Edition.

My First Grader has been dying to lose a tooth! He is one of the last in his class that still have all their baby teeth, and he was getting pretty antsy... especially because for the past several weeks his bottom two teeth have started loosening. Well, a couple weeks ago he came home from school pretty excited because his loose tooth was REALLY SUPER LOOSE! I told him that if he worked at it, he could probably get it out today!

First, he had to see how far it would bend forward and back, side to side -

It was even starting to bleed, which I told him was a GOOD sign! That meant it was breaking free!
The other good sign was when he pushed it he could hear the distinctive popping sounds when it started pulling away from the gums. The more pops, the closer it was to coming out!
It popped some more, and he could almost get his tongue all the way under it! I told him it was almost no time now...
Grab it with the tissue, and PULL!
The look on his face when he realized that the tooth that was in his mouth was now in his hand was excellent. :)
And all of a sudden, my boy's smile would never ever be the same!
The neighborhood kids (all younger than Riley) came over to check out the tooth!
and Riley was super excited to have something to put under his pillow!
And the Tooth Fairy did visit him! He got TWO golden dollars! Lucky kid!