On the same day we lost Leo, Carolyn lost her first tooth. It was one of the center bottom teeth. She panicked a bit (and that is probably an understatement) before school because the tooth was barely hanging by a thread and she was afraid of what would happen when it fell out. She would not let me pop it out and had tears staining her cheeks when I dropped her off at school. She ended up losing it while she was on a field trip at the planetarium; she did not even know she lost it. She told her teacher it was gone, and they found it on the floor. Her teacher gave her a special "tooth" necklace (look at her neck) and a shiny dollar coin. She was so excited to see me that afternoon when I picked her up, and laughed at how nervous she was that morning about losing it.
The excitement of the lost tooth was a bit overshadowed by the overwhelming news that Leo was dying, but somehow we managed to write a letter to the tooth fairy before she went to bed that night. It said,
"Dear Tooth Fairy. Please leave my tooth, and a dollar or so too."
The tooth fairy did indeed leave the tooth for her to keep, and also left Leo's collar and a crisp dollar bill.
UPDATE: In the time it has taken me to catch-up on the blog, she has now lost a second tooth. The other center tooth on the bottom. I do not have a photo of her mouth with two missing teeth. She lost that one on Superbowl Sunday.
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