Elation: palpable. Mention her loose tooth and she beams, she bounces.

I remember having loose teeth; but I don’t remember it being so gross. When she says, “Look, Dad!” and wiggles her tooth, my skin crawls. It’s been several days since she first noticed it and she constantly wiggles it or asks someone else to wiggle it. “Look, look! I have a loose tooth! I’m the queen of the playground, a shining star of kindergarten society! Wiggle it and bow before me!”

The only thing better, apparently, is having a hole where one’s loose tooth has fallen out. I’m hesitant to pull it. We’re going to wait a few more days. The lovely and talented wife says we should wait until she can spin it around. When she said that, I nearly fainted.

Children are completely unnatural.

Comments

1. bishamon on 2006-02-16 22:39:53 wrote: I remember having my loose tooth fall out of my mouth when i was having my noodles. I literally stop eating, losing all appetite seeing the blood in my noodles.

2. john on 2006-02-17 07:15:49 wrote: Dude, that’s disgusting. :-)

3. ann adams on 2006-02-22 12:15:55 wrote: She may save you the trouble of pulling it, Mine all did - the dollar under the pillow is too much temptation.

4. Murli on 2006-04-30 11:18:38 wrote: I used to save my teeth! Inspired my younger sister to do the same. We kept them a loooong time after the whole falling-teeth phase ended.