Owen Loses His First Tooth!

Three weeks ago Kyle lost his first tooth. Each day since we’ve been waiting on the edge of our seats for Owen to lose his. Owen’s tooth was very loose, even when Kyle lost his. And in the past few days it was very, very loose. Owen has been so full of anticipation and just totally beyond excited to lose his own first tooth. He has asked Braydon several times to try pulling it out. Braydon has tried to no avail. Over the past couple of weeks MorMor and MorFar both also tried. And Margie has tried a few times too. It just wasn’t coming out. But today, it was dangling by a thread– literally just about hanging out of his mouth. And tonight was the big night. After dinner Owen asked Braydon, yet again, to pull it out. We knew this time it would be it– but still, Owen was shocked and stunned when it actually happened. Braydon held Owen on his lap and with a tissue wrapped around his tooth it took barely a quick tug to pop it out! Owen was ecstatic and proud and couldn’t stop looking at himself in the mirror. The boys went to bed with Owen’s tooth and a dictated-to-Mommy letter-to-the-Tooth-Fairy tucked safely inside the Tooth Fairy Pillow. The boys were both filled with great excitement for a visit from the Tooth Fairy.

A big night for Owen — right smack dab in the middle of Birthday Week. The excitement level could not be higher around here these days. We’re just bursting at the seams with it all. And now, not only do we have two just-on-the-verge-of-turning-six year-olds… but we also have two boys who are just about as thrilled as can be with the fact that now they’ve both lost their first teeth when they were still five.

(If you look closely at this last picture you’ll see that Kyle’s about to lose his next tooth– the grown-up-tooth is already coming in. And although you can’t see it as well on Owen in this picture, he’s got the same thing going on in his mouth.)