Elleanor's "Mommy Teeth"

Elleanor's bottom two teeth have been loose for quite some time. So long, in fact, that her adult teeth have been growing in behind them. Elleanor calls them her "Mommy Teeth"!


After we got home from the wedding extravaganza in Portland, the girls were playing and dancing in their flower girl dresses. Ainsley accidentally knocked Elleanor in the mouth and her first tooth FINALLY came out!



She was SO excited and called everyone! She gently placed her tooth in her tooth fairy pillow that our dear friend, Betty Ann, made for her. (Thank-You, Betty Ann!)


Joe had told Elleanor that the Tooth Fairy is friends with Tinker Bell, so she was very excited to go to sleep that night, knowing that two fairies would make an appearance in her room!

She ran into our room at 5:50 a.m. EXTREMELY excited that the Tooth Fairy had left her TWO dollars and a note. She said she heard the Tooth Fairy and Tinker Bell talking to each other in her room last night, looking for her tooth, and then they whispered "good night" to her!


Oh, to be a child again with such a sense of imagination!

Just two days later, we were eating corn on the cob for dinner. Joe and I watched Elleanor intently as she ate her corn, as we knew her second tooth was hanging on by a thread. She WOULD NOT let us pull it! She said she would try to wiggle it out herself.


After 30 minutes of wiggling, I convinced her that a piece of corn was stuck in that loose tooth and that I needed to pull it out. Sure enough, as soon as I worked to "get that piece of corn out"....out popped the second tooth! ;-)



The Tooth Fairy once again visited and left her another two dollars and a note.




She is planning on using her money for the ice cream truck that comes around our neighborhood in the summer...if the rain ever stops and it gets warm enough! :-)