Tooth(less)

It's been wiggle for months, and as been dangling as he talked for a few weeks.

He finally pulled it out himself.

It was pretty bloody and I thought he was going to be upset but he was so proud!

He cannot keep that tongue out of the new space.  The new tooth is hanging out in the back waiting to move forward.  The one next to it is being pushed forward and out of its spot as well.  The days this smiling looking like this are numbered.  He'll be completely toothless before long.

He's loved listening to the stories of everyone waiting for that little tooth to first make its appearance almost 6 years.  I LOVE the way he loves listening to stories about when he was a baby.

He quickly scrawled a little note to stick under his pillow before bed.

The tooth fairy was able to scrounge up $5 from random coat pockets.  I know $5 is well below the going rate for a tooth in NYC, but Freddie seemed pleased.  He even gave one of his dollars to Hansie.

Before school he did ask me if my parents were the ones who put money under my pillow.  He certainly doesn't want to think HIS parents are the ones that do that, but he's got a little doubt already.  I told him I didn't think so, and after some probing found that it was Diana, one of his main kindergarten buddies, that's informed him of how the tooth fairy really works.  She's planted the seed, but he still wants to believe.

Kid can't stop looking in the mirror now!

My baby boy is growing up.  I still see that little smiley bald baby when I look over at him though.