Losing teeth

Kayleigh was our oldest child and as the oldest it meant that some things she did she had never seen happen to anyone else in the family before. A classic example was when she got her first loose tooth.

Now we had always stressed the importance of cleaning her teeth so imagine her complete shock when one day, in kindergarten, one of her bottom teeth had become wobbly. Kayleigh asked her dad and I what was happening - she looked really really worried. We told her that her teeth were going to come out and she would grow new ones. Kayleigh looked at us horrified - and then started crying. I had to give her hugs until she calmed down enough to tell us what was wrong. Kayleigh told us she didn't want her teeth to fall out, it actually scared her and she thought ALL of her teeth were going to fall out all at once. Maybe we explained it badly? I had to talk slowly through it and that only the woobly tooth would come out and then a new tooth would replace it. She was still a little apprehensive until the tooth fairy gave her $2 for it, then she couldn't wait to lose the next one :-)