Monday, January 6, 2014

Loose Tooth

For the longest time I 
wondered, when will Emma lose her 
first tooth, I honestly cant remember exactly
how old I was when I lost my 1st, but I 
can pin it to somewhere around 1st or 2nd grade.
{vague...I know!}
All of Emma's friends have lost
their 1st tooth, and she was becoming
discouraged, wondering when she would 
lose her 1st tooth. 
Well, December 9th, was
a very special day for our sweet girl!
She had a loose tooth all during Thanksgiving
and showed everyone who would look her 
very cute wiggly little tooth! 
But she would not let anyone touch it...
she was afraid of Daddy accidentally 
pulling it and it hurting badly.
{of course Daddy wouldn't do that, but 
she was very worried about that...}
So for a good 2 weeks every single day, several
times a day Emma would run up and show me 
her loose tooth. Saying,
 'Mommy, I think it might fall out today!'
Finally, she was tired of waiting...2 weeks 
is a long time to wait for a loose tooth to come out!
She brought me a wet washcloth and told me 
she was ready for me to try to pull it. I told 
her that if it was not ready I would not pull it.
She was ready...I carefully covered her cute little 
tooth with the washcloth and pinched and gently pulled
and out it came! She was very excited to say the least!
Excited that she had lost her first tooth, just like 
all of her friends, and more excited that the Tooth Fairy
{of whom all of her friends have talked} would finally 
come! 





The next morning, {bright and early}
I awoke to this excited little girl!
The Tooth Fairy wrote her a note, brought her a 
new tooth brush, toothpaste & princess mouthwash
and more importantly a sparkly, glittery $5 dollar bill!!
The girls were very excited to see the glittery trail that she left
outside their window in the snow...turquoise glitter, Emma's favorite color!


Last night Emma lost tooth #2!!
{tooth #1's next door neighbor!}
All she wanted for New Years was her 2 front teeth! Ha!
This time, however, Mommy tried to pull it with no luck,
it simply wasn't ready to come out yet!
I sent the girls to brush their teeth before bed, and 
they were being silly, Abby somehow managed to bump
Emma's hand that was on her tooth and it came out 
and fell strait down the drain. Now, if this had been the first
tooth lost, that would have been a terrible, terrible thing, 
going down the drain, but since we did this exact 
same thing less than a month ago, it was no big deal! 
I think Emma was really just relieved that it was finally out!
She did write the Tooth Fairy a note explaining that she 
did in fact lose her tooth, literally! Haha! She
was so worried that the Tooth Fairy would be mad, and 
not come and visit her if she had no tooth to leave!

UH-dorable! I LOVE my sweet Emma girl!
I think my favorite part about the note, 
{if you can't read it...}
is where she tells the TF that 
Abby is "srrey" and that she loves to 
brush her teeth! 
Cuteness! 
LOVE my girls!



What it's all about

I've been meaning to write about this
particular post for some time and am 
so glad to finally be getting around to 
it! 
I wasn't quite sure how to
put in to words how much this particular post 
meant to me, but here goes...

A month or so ago
{before Christmas}
Emma came home from
school with a list of things
from the 'holiday shop' 
at school. The 'holiday shop'
is a place where the kiddos can
shop for their loved ones just like a big kid,
without Mommy or Daddy!
Emma got a chance to preshop and
pick out a few things that she'd like
to buy! 
Emma had been saving her 
money that she had earned here and there
and she totaled the amount that she would 
need to buy the things on her list, she 
counted $16 in quarters, dimes, nickles,
& dollars. She was SO proud!
Later that day,
I went to pick her up from 
school. She was beaming with
excitement! I figured she was excited because
she had bought herself or Abby some neat toy or
book, never in my wildest dreams did I expect 
what was to come next...
she climbed in to the car and exclaimed 
"Mommy! Look what I got for you!"
completely taken by surprise, I said, 
"For Me?" she said yes and handed me a velvet box.
I said, "well, is this for Christmas, maybe I should
wait to open it." she insisted that I open it right then!
So, I did! I was oddly extremely emotional about 
1. the fact that my precious 6 year old could have bought 
anything she wanted in the store for herself, yet she spent
all of her money one me. Her Mom. 
2. My baby girl was growing up, she had made 
her very first purchase, without mine or Daddy's help. 
a selfless purchase. 
one that I will remember for the rest of my days. 
I opened the velvet box to find 
a necklace with a matching pair of earrings
I struggled to keep tears back, 
one of the sweetest things anyone has ever done for me. 
"Oh, Emma, I LOVE it!" I exclaimed and hugged my
precious girl. 



{my heart!}
she's had it since day one,
and always will :)

Emma Grace, you truly are learning
an important life lesson,
that it is better to give than to receive!
And this Momma couldn't be prouder!