Catching up

So the first official day of winter break for me was Sunday Feb. 19th.  (I had to work the 18th.)  I awoke to a little girl running down the hall screaming  "MOMMA, MOMMA, MOMMA, Look it fell out!"  She came bursting into my room with the tooth in one hand and a HUGE grin on her face.  The tooth has been good and loose for over a month and she wouldn't let us pull it out.  Every night we would brush it, floss it and wiggle it until she couldn't take it anymore.  Every day she could be caught a wigglin that tooth.  It was her first tooth to fall out and she waited seven long years and almost 3 months for that sucker to fall out so the heralded tooth fairy would make her visit.

She then put the tooth in the pillowcase that had been mine, but frankly I do not remember using it ever, to await the tooth fairy's arrival and impending economic windfall that accompanies her.  Unfortunately for Grace the tooth fairy was rather poor and only left a dollar for that tooth.  It's OK though she was thrilled and ending up getting another dollar from the tooth fairy via Grandma Terry's house, she got to go to the American Girl store later that week and she got 2 new books from Daddy.  All in all she made out like a bandit.

I hope to always remember these moments that are monumental to her.  She is a ray of sunshine in some dark days and a great snuggle bunny, although she is rather bony.  I love this girl so much, toothless smile and all.  The tooth fairy had better start gearing up though there are two more in there that are waiting for the early morning hours to pop out of that girls head.