Bradley lost his 1st tooth!!

The day after we got back from our weekend trip, Monday night, Bradley lost his first tooth.  I knew this tooth had been hanging on by a thread and he wanted us to pull it out that night anyways.  It was dinner time and he had apple slices on his plate with anticipation of this thing coming out.  He had been eating some apples and I noticed he was eating off to the side of his tooth.  I told him to bite right into the apple with his loose tooth.  As soon as I said that and saw him chewing I noticed the tooth was GONE!! I said “Bradley, OH NO, I don’t see it anymore, I think you swallowed it!!” I did completely what a mom should not do and freaked and it made him start crying.  Then I started crying because it was my idea for him to eat the apple and he accidentally swallowed it.  I was thinking to myself that I ruined his entire first tooth experience.  Luckily, cool and calm collected Daddy in his polite way scolded me for getting Bradley all upset and then he fixed it.  He said “ It’s OK buddy, the tooth fairy will still come tonight and leave you money.  You will also have many more teeth to fall out and put on your pillow again. About five minutes later after things were calmer and we were eating dinner I said “I am so sorry buddy, I wish I would have warned you to try and not swallow it and look out for it.  If only I would have said something sooner.  Are you SURE you didn’t feel it come out?” Then he says, “Well, I did spit some apples out in the trash because I felt something hard!” I jumped up and ran to the trash and it was right there in his chewed up apple.  Phew!! I never even saw him get up and spit apples out.  I imagine I was distracted or busy in the kitchen. I didn’t know what to happened and he didn't know what happened but when we talked it out, we figured it out! I was so thankful for our discovery we stumbled upon.  His tooth was discovers, the tears were gone and after bed the tooth fairy came! Now, if only we could find that missing tooth fairy pillow just like we found the tooth.  I don’t know how some things just grow legs and walk off?!

 

We are so excited for him.  The tooth fairy brought him $2 dollars for this being his first tooth.  One bill and 4 quarters.  He requested both forms of money at different times before, saying how it would be neat to get coins and cash! That night he had a million questions about the tooth fairy.  How would she get in?  Will she still come if Gavin is in my room? All extremely adorable because he was so excited.  He finally went to sleep and the next morning at 6 am he ran into our room and said “ Mom, the tooth fairy left me so much money! One dollar and four quarters!” Later that day after school he was still giddy over the whole thing.  He got to write his name on the board in class for the kids who have lost their teeth.  He said to me randomly after school “Can you believe it that the tooth fairy came and left me money for my tooth?!!!” grinning from ear to ear.  I said “I know buddy, it is so cool isn’t it.  I believe it!”