Loose Tooth!

Some things in childhood you really have no control over. Loosing teeth is one of those things. Collin has been asking for almost a year now about when he will lose a tooth. The other kids in his class have been loosing teeth for a whole year- some in Kindergarten and Collin has been waiting patiently. Every so often I ask if he has any lose teeth and he says no. It was a ritual of ours.

Until one day he said yes.

I happened to be away in Florida at the time and during facetime he shared his news. A loose tooth! A new world. A transition out of early childhood.

And here it is, still just loose.

I couldn’t recall how long it takes for a tooth to go from newly loose to ready to fall out. It turns out for Collin its pretty long, because its still only partially loose and we’re about a month since its started to really wiggle. Maybe that means sometime in April it will fall out.

Enter the tooth fairy. A whole new world for us.  What does the tooth fairy do you ask? I’m not really sure. What does she bring? I’m not quite sure about that either. We’ll have to wait and see.

For now, we’ll mark down the first wiggle: February 24^th, 2016.

Wiggles are on our way though, through one of the many doors into becoming a big kid and losing more than teeth, moving away from the little bits of early childhood bright eyed excitement. And so, he loses a tooth and I lose a little bit of the baby left in him.