Lost a Tooth

Collin lost his first tooth this weekend. What! He's only 4 1/2, you say? Well here's the story on the infamous tooth. When Collin was not quite 2 years old he was coloring up at the table. He was sitting on a booster, but not buckled in. He dropped a crayon onto the kitchen floor. He tried to reach down to get it rather than get off the chair and grab it. Slam! Landed on his face! Lots of blood. His tooth seemed a little bit loose, but it definitely wasn't loose enough to come out. We went to the dentist. She took an xray (you never saw an almost 2 year old hold so still) and we confirmed our suspicions: Collin's tooth was dead. The dentist was so nice and she said her granddaughter had just done the same thing at age 3. She said the tooth was going to turn grey and then eventually fall out. She offered to put a little tooth color on his tooth if it got too ugly and noticeable. Well his tooth held on for 2 1/2 more years. In the last few months the tooth seemed to be getting worse. Then last Wednesday we went to play and have lunch at Arctic Circle. A kid ran into Collin, not sure what happened even though he was standing about 3 feet from me, but I think he bumped Collin from behind and Collin bit down hard on his lip. His lip was bleeding, but his tooth was extra loose. I knew that was the end for the tooth. We let it go a little while, but by Thursday night we were all sick of having to be cautious. I was sick of having to cut up Collin's food just so he could eat. Darrell just yanked it out for him. Hooray the tooth was out! I was getting Collin all psyched up for the event. I wanted to keep it positive for him, because I know that he was really worried about it. He was a little embarrassed to go to school on Friday. I told him that all the kids would think it's cool. I told the teacher to help keep it positive since Collin was a little upset. Everything went fine at school. He is totally ok with it now. Plus he got "tens" (dimes, his favorite) from the tooth fairy. Also the tooth fairy let him keep his tooth until after show and tell next week at school. What a cool tooth fairy! So the Saga of the Tooth is over now. It's good, because he would make some food choices based around how his tooth felt. Like not eating apple or corn on the cob. It will probably be a year or even two before his tooth grows in so we just gotta get used to this look. I am going to see a dentist to see if there is anything else we need to do. Just in case. I was really glad to have a really good dentist when it happened so that I can understand it all and know the options and outcome. Pretty much we just have to wait for it to grow in. Here are a couple pics of my toothless baby.

Oh, and what do you put your tooth in? A cupcake paper, of course! He was carrying this around before the tooth fell out. Just in case! The things this kid thinks of just crack me up.