A very special visitor

The Tooth Fairy paid a visit to our house this week after Amelia lost her very first tooth.

In this photo Amelia is trying to show the hole left when her tooth came out; however, there isn't much of a hole because her new, "big girl" tooth is almost all the way through.

You see, we've been waiting since early October for this tooth to fall out. The dentist told Amelia at her last appointment that her tooth might be out by Halloween. Well, since it was still in after the holiday had come and gone, Amelia thought it would be the next Halloween before she lost her tooth.

We watched and wiggled that tooth for weeks, but Amelia was very reluctant to pull it. She wanted to let it fall out when it was good and ready. But, she didn't factor in her ever more visible big tooth, though, because it basically pushed her baby tooth out of her mouth.

She lost her tooth while visiting Grandmaw and Pawpaw. She'd been wiggling it with her tongue, as she's done quite often these last few weeks, when all of a sudden it came out. I wasn't there, but her daddy said she said something to the effect of, "Hey, my tooth just came out."

Thankfully, the tooth made it home and she was able to tuck it into her tooth pillow and nestle it under her bed pillow to await the tooth fairy's visit. The tooth fairy likely had to made a few other stops before landing at our house because it took Amelia quite a while to fall asleep.

Despite the delay in her arrival, the tooth fairy did make it to our house and was able to pick up the tooth and deposit in its place two shiny quarters. Amelia was thrilled to find them under her pillow when she awoke and is already making plans for how to spend them, and the money has served to make her less reluctant to pull the next loose tooth she finds in her mouth.