Teeth, Teeth and more Teeth.

Our lives over the last couple weeks have revolved around sticking our fingers in our children's mouths. I know that it sounds pretty repulsive but we are at such an interesting stage in our lives, we have one child losing teeth and two children getting teeth. Funny that you typically lose your two bottom middle teeth first and they are also the first to appear when you are a baby. Well last Friday (the 24th of August) Elle got her second tooth, on Sunday the 26th Hannah lost her second tooth, and currently Will has two bulging bumps on the bottom gum that look ready to give way to two little white nubbins we like to call teeth any day.

Hannah really wanted to extracting her tooth with the method of tying a string around her tooth and the door knob and shutting the door... YIKES. We tried this a couple weeks ago with the same tooth and to both mine and Aaron's relief the string slipped off the tooth before the door shut all the way. WHEW! Luckily a couple weeks later the tooth was literally hanging on by a thread and string stayed in place around the tooth resulting in a successful tooth extraction using the door slam method. It was quite exciting and surprisingly Hannah did not flinch at all, she just stood their until she heard the tooth hit the ground and then started laughing.

Now about that tooth fairy... Hannah's first tooth was MIA before she could get it under her pillow for the tooth fairy so we decided to go against the grain and try a different method of getting the tooth to the tooth fairy. Luckily Hannah's Grammy had tried the method when she was little and assured Hannah that the tooth fairy would still come. We put a glass cup in the window sill above the kitchen sink and dropped the tooth into the water. This way when the tooth fairy flew by she would be able to clearly see the tooth in the glass that was placed in the kitchen window and surely she would retrieve the tooth and leave $. Well I am happy to say that this worked. The tooth fairy was able to find the tooth and left Hannah 4 quarters. (I think the tooth fairy started a bit high, with 4 kids she is going to be broke!)