Shedding off baby teeth

Tooth

with a gap

13th July 2015, Tuesday morning, you were ready to go to your kindergarten. You pointed at your teeth and said, "Mommy, my tooth is moving." That was the morning that you showed your moving tooth to mommy and papa. We both were awed and said, " you are going to have new teeth. You baby teeth are shedding.' You were so happy to learn that as you knew that shedding baby teeth meant you would be having stronger adult teeth. You were then 5 years, 10 months and 8 days old.

After that you kept moving and pulling your tooth. You sat down to watch tally, your finger would be flickering around your mouth. Inwardly, I was worried that you may cry of pain as I remembered my experience when my teacher then in primary school, used a string to pull off my loosened teeth. It was a very painful experience. Rest teeth how I was able to pull them off, but that particular moment was very frightening, my eyes were with tears and I felt a pang of agony as I would have dared to slap her.

Day by day, your tooth was loosened and on 17th July, after 4 days, you were sitting on the edge of the bed when you kept moving it. Papa helped you to move gently and I was horrified wondering you would end up in tears. I was sitting beside you two but not looking at the pulling process. You papa gave a soothing pull and told you not to panic. He said, "See, there is already a tooth under this. We need to take it out now. If we don't pull this out now, your new tooth will have no space to grow properly, you will end up bad teeth." You obeyed him. And in few minutes later, papa meticulously pulled off your tooth. It was 15:35 and papa had to go to work at 16:00. It was only 25 minutes before papa left for work.

You were excited and asked us to put the tooth under the pillow at night and take it away after putting a dollar coin. You wanted papa to be a tooth fairy. I insisted since a fairy is a lady, mommy will be a tooth fairy.

You cleaned the tooth and put inside a container. You asked us to congratulate you on your safely coming off the tooth. You ended up cleaning regularly for a week and stopped since I told you cleaning too much will break.