First tooth gone

We have a winner! Connor was our first child to lose a tooth! It all started about a week ago, Connor and Andrew were playing hard running around and Connor smacked into Andrew, hitting his mouth. That jarred loose one of his front teeth. He was pretty excited about it and for the next week talked about it and worked at it until yesterday it was barely holding on.

At breakfast he showed it to me and I tried to talk him into letting me pull it (no way!) or pull it himself (he wouldn’t take a firm grip on it). So, Amanda and I left for work once Asia arrived, knowing today would probably be the day. Sure enough, later on Amanda got a message from Connor that the tooth had come out… during lunch… and, he SWALLOWED it!

Our first tooth and we don’t even have it to rally around, look at, admire, etc.??? Connor was so excited that it had come out finally and he could return to eating normally. Of course, being a good dad I didn’t pass up the opportunity for a physiology lesson and let them know that the tooth would be coming out the other end. They have made sure this lesson isn’t wasted and included this in their recounting of the story to friends, family, and strangers we meet at the soccer game! Amanda is very impressed with my fatherly wisdom.

Connor knows the tooth fairy is Mom and Dad, but he still was beyond excitement going to bed. We game him a little bag with a dollar and some other goodies that he is enjoying this morning. Maybe when Andrew loses his tooth we’ll be able to keep that one!