"It tickles." 

These were the words Anna uttered yesterday before she realized that she was actually missing a front tooth.  She had been wheeling Sarah around in a baby doll stroller.  After a particularly fast ride some type of "collision" had occurred between the two girls.  Anna came out of the ordeal missing one of her teeth!  And we soon discovered it wasn’t the ‘loosest’ of the two top front ones I’ve had my eye and fingers on lately.  You may remember she lost her first tooth from the bottom about a month ago.  The adult tooth for that one has popped its head through but it hasn’t fully come in yet.

"Moooooommmmm."

This was the cry we heard from Anna’s bedroom last night about ten minutes after we had tucked her in.  When I walked into the room Anna told me the straggler tooth (very ‘lolly’ as Sarah pointed out) had ALSO come out.  Since she was already applying a wash cloth to the first tooth hole, she took care of the second tooth as well and had already put it in the tooth box for the tooth fairy.

While the concept of loosing teeth is very exciting for Anna ( = $$$ ) we discovered it is exceedingly less so for Sarah.  After Anna’s first tooth came out, Sarah began to bawl!  "I don’t want to lose my teeth!" she cried.  We tried to assure her that she wouldn’t lose her teeth for a long time–probably not until she was five years old or older.  To this she cried, "I don’t want to be 5!"  After she calmed down and stopped crying, as I was tucking her into bed, she asked me, "Dad, will my teeth be lolly tomorrow?"  I informed her they wouldn’t.  This morning, Sarah seemed pleasantly surprised that her teeth were ALL firmly intact.  Anna was pleasantly surprised to find her two front teeth had been harvested for a nice cash settlement.  That tooth fairy is a business savvy broad I must say.