The tooth

We have officially entered another phase of childhood.  The one where they lose teeth and grow really big adult teeth and don't look like little kids anymore.  **sigh**

Meredith's two bottom teeth have been wiggly for months.  Since late September or early October.  Just last week, one became very wiggly.  You could push it back and forth, up and down.  It was just hanging on by a thread.  Someone was so excited to lose it that she let me yank it out.  For a minute, we thought it was going to come out on Christmas Eve and that the Tooth Fairy AND Santa would have to come on the same night.  But Meredith was too excited for that and well, the tooth came out on 12/23.  Right before bed.  It's a good thing that the Tooth Fairy receives communications very quickly.  She left two of the $1 gold coins under Meredith's pillow.  Now that the first one is gone, she isn't quite as anxious to get that other one out.  I have a feeling it will be sometime in the next month.  

Without further ado, here's the new smile.