This past weekend a big event happened that we had been waiting for (dreading really) a couple weeks now. My kiddos first baby tooth fell out! I knew it was going to happen someday but it felt like that day came too quick. I remember when he was still a baby and we loved his gummy smile. It was the most adorable thing ever and I couldn’t imagine loving his smile more.
Then the teething started and it was tough. Every tear and fever during the growing process was rough but in the end, out popped out the most adorable baby teeth. Each tooth was a treasure! We loved his growing tooth smile so much.
Of course, over time each little tooth slot filled in and he had a full smile. Now my little munchkin is a big 5 year old going to school. He came home and complained about an “owie” in his mouth.
I take a look inside and what I see freaks me out of my mind! Looking at his teeth, I see a new tooth popping out behind a baby bottom tooth and I start planning our emergency trip to the dentist. He’s my only child and I sure don’t remember my first tooth falling out so I wonder if this is even normal? Isn’t the tooth suppose to fall out first then the new tooth come in? Isn’t he too young for this whole thing? I kinda have a memory of me being in first grade when my teeth were falling out so I worry that this is going to be a dentist emergency visit disaster!
I go online and ask friends who have kids and they all say its normal so I calm down a bit but the worry still lingers. He had just gone to the dentist about a month earlier and he said everything looked good. He even had x-rays done that he said looked good too so that helped calm my nerves as well.
{I want to take a moment and say that friends are truly invaluable when you have kids. You need them and you will want Mommy friends. They are integral to your well being. Trust me! Build a network of Mommy friends.}
Fast forward to over 2 weeks later and that adult tooth keeps growing behind his baby tooth. Along with the tooth, my worry grows. Ant then last week, the scarier stuff started… the shaky tooth week! Yep, that baby tooth was shaking all over and with it’s shaking meant blood while eating and tears. My kiddo does not do well with blood so it was a rough week. He didn’t want to eat and there were even tears on my part.
The big day came on Sunday. That afternoon we were eating home made chicken soup when all of a sudden, I see him stop eating with food in his mouth and spit it out all over the floor. I knew immediately what had happened! There on the floor was my son’s baby tooth! The first one to fall out. But I also now had a munchkin full of blood in his mouth yelling and crying hysterically as I’m crying too. Can you tell we’re pretty emotional people?
Over 30 minutes of crying and spitting later and he’s finally calmed down. We talk about his tooth and how he knew his grown up teeth were coming in. Ane we talk about the Tooth Fairy.
Yes guys! We totally did a visit from the Tooth Fairy. My kiddo had questions, of course, about this mysterious new friend. He wanted to know what she looked like and how she came and every possible detail.
So quickly I came up with this:
Tooth fairy description: Pixie-like small fairy with wings that can fly and is glitter blue. {My favorite color}
Job info: Comes into your room at night. Is friendly and kind. Definitely not scary! She brings with her a gift of change/dollar bill in exchange for your tooth.
Payment: I told my munchkin she would bring him a nice dollar bill. Of course you guys could pick your own money amount. A nice touch would be to add glitter to the money to make it more magical.
How it works: You place your lost tooth in a container of some sort. In our case it was a clear sleeve that closes, like one used to protect a name tag. You place the tooth under your pillow and you go to sleep. When you wake up you will have a nice surprise from the Tooth Fairy!
Why is there no lost tooth munchkin photo? He doesn’t want pictures of his smile right now. He feels pretty yucky still about his mouth and so I will give him his space even on this big thing. That adult tooth growing in is still growing and so he doesn’t have a cute gap to take a photo of either.
I felt really bad because I was highly unprepared. While I worried about the tooth falling out, I never really stopped to think what I would do after it fell out. I felt like it was a major parenting fail on my part and I wish I could change it. I wish my printer had been working so I could have printed out a special letter from the Tooth Fairy. I wish I had glitter nail polish so I could put it on my kiddos dollar. There are many more “I wishes” but if reading this can help you with your kiddos first time loosing a tooth then it will make me feel so much better.
Here’s to your kiddo’s first lost tooth and first experience with the Tooth Fairy being truly magical! If you have already gone through a lost tooth, what was your experience and how did your kiddos deal with it? Any tips/special ideas for other parents about to go through this? Please Share Away!
So cute! I don’t have kids yet, but the students I’ve subbed for get so excited when the tooth fairy comes to their house! They have these super funny questions like, “What if I lose my tooth when I’m eating and I accidentally swallow it? Will the tooth fairy still come? Why would she give me money if I didn’t give her a tooth?! If I leave her a note, do you think that would be okay?”
Kids can be so curious but its true I would want to know these answers as well if I was a little kid. I was worried my kiddo was going to swallow his! You sound like a great sub for being there for them 🙂
The tooth fairy has been to our house a lot lately.
Here too now! twice in 8 days. Thanks for stopping by!
I am just going to have to say that my girls LOVE to have their teeth pulled and I love to pull them.. I wonder if there is a diagnosis for this? I even did a Flashback Friday on this topic. My 3 year old is learning from them that pulling teeth is not scary but exciting 😉
Sadly, my girls have HIGH expectations from the tooth fairy… An IPAD.. really? No… you can have $2…UGH.. kids these days. BTW… my daughter has a ‘shark tooth’… baby tooth behind the adult tooth.. She actually says it hurts to wiggle it.. so we might have to go to the dentist for that one.
i am so opposite! i will admit that seeing his tooth wiggle while he talked made me literally go into tears! Watching him eat with the wiggle was even worse. I was a mess. it was horrible for me and I couldn’t hide it. i think it was because seeing his tooth wiggle meant him getting older and growing and you know… the whole my baby is going to grow up and leave me fears set in. I know i am crazy but this is where my mind went.
And my son had high expectations when it came to money amount too so i had to explain to him that this was the amount he would get since the tooth fairy had to have enough money for all the kids in the world.
I hope it all goes well with the dentist. tooth problems are scary!
So sweet! We have Tooth Fairy Visits as well and my Kiddies always love waking up and finding the surprises. i incuded money and usually a small toy.
I wanted to try a small gift but the first one snuck up on me so bad that i didnt have time to plan.
Alvina, your story made me chuckle because we went through some drama with my son (firstborn) when he was loosing his first teeth, too. Would you believe that his first eight adult teeth grew behind his baby teeth? They all had to be pulled out by the dentist. He was put under for the first four due to anxiety. Mommy and son anxiety. We tried to make light of it by calling him ‘Bruce’ after the shark in Finding Nemo. So yes, the Tooth Fairy was a major presence around here! By the time our daughter was into it, things had changed dramatically. I had been teaching grade one for a while and had written a number of ‘certified letters’ to the TF verifying that a tooth had, if fact, come out and been lost, so to please accept the letter in its place, and pulled many a problematic tooth out for students on the spot. The TF got so laid back at our house that she missed a night and came late, while Larissa was at school! Great post.
wow! That is a lot to go through but its great to know that hes ok through it all. My son just lost another one last night making it 2 teeth in 8 days and its been very rough here. another tooth was growing behind one and i was worried about taking him to the dentist as well but it all worked out in the end thankfully. Im glad he can finally eat comfortably because it had been hard to chew the past 2 days. Thanks for sharing your story with us and for stopping by 🙂
Ps. LOVE the idea of certified letters to the tooth fairy. so cute. I remember my techers being there for me through plenty tooth loses so its nice to know teachers are still helping out in that department.
I would make sure and tell him that the Tooth Fairy needs a messenger. I remember when I was little and I didn’t tell my parents that I lost my tooth and wondered why the Tooth Fairy didn’t come! I learned after that!
My parents missed out on most of my tooth loses but my teachers really stepped up. I was in 1st grade when most of my teeth fell out and I remember my teacher helping me and giving us small prizes for these important milestones. Luckily Im here for my son as hes going through these big events. I hope that if I ever cant be there to be the tooth fairy that special people can come along and be tooth fairy messengers for me. Thanks for sharing and for coming over 🙂