Andrea Loses her First Tooth!

On Friday, Andrea came home from daycare with exciting news: she lost her first tooth!

She told us that it fell out at lunch time, while she was eating some potatoes! Her teachers put it in a little envelope for her to bring it home, and gave her a special certificate to celebrate her losing her first tooth at daycare.

We asked Andrea if she had noticed it was lose, and she said no. When we looked in her mouth, we discovered two interesting things: 1.) the tooth next to the one that fell out is also very loose and 2.) her two adult teeth are already coming in behind the the loose ones. It looks really odd, since she has the two teeth coming in behind the row that's already there. I said it reminded me of the rows of a shark's teeth! (Of course, I didn't tell HER that. She'd be insulted.) Daddy looked it up online, and this is a bit unusual, but shouldn't be a problem since the teeth in front are already out/almost out. They even call it "shark's teeth," just like I said.

Andrea was so excited about the tooth fairy coming. We played "tooth fairy" all evening, and she was anxious for bedtime. I pulled out a little tooth holder that someone had given me as a gift for Andrea when she was a baby, and we put her tooth in there, next to her bed. The Tooth Fairy brought her $5 (apparently that's the going rate) and Daddy took her to Dollarama for a shopping spree the next day. :) She is growing up too quickly!

More Andrea Fun . . .

Right now, she likes drawing stories. I usually write out the words for her, but she creates it all and illustrates it herself. This is a sample of Andrea's work:

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The other thing Andrea is great at is entertaining Ryan. If he's lonely, or fussy, Andrea can make him laugh, anytime. He just adores her. She makes him laugh every time; they are so cute together. Andrea is very proud of her ability to make Ryan happy. :)