All Belle Wants for Christmas...

Is going to be a mouth full of teeth! She lost her third tooth the other day and now has all 4 of her top front ones loose. I mean when you touch them her whole gum moves. I have a feeling that they will be out well before Christmas and she will be "Gummy" through the month of December.

Loose teeth is another example to me of how different my two little ones are. For example, when Hayden started losing her teeth no one was allowed to touch them. She tried to not touch them when she brushed her teeth, she would eat around them. There was no wiggling them and pulling them was DEFINITELY not going to happen. When her front two were coming out they were so loose they were sideways, literally, and she still would not let me pull it! We had to wait for gravity to make the poor tooth finally fall out because she surely wasn't going to help it out.

Hayden and her loose tooth 08/06

Then there is Isabelle. Her tooth was loose on the bottom. I told her it probably wouldn't be out before Thanksgiving because it was loose but not that loose. So she started wiggling it with her fingers, with her tongue, making me wiggle it. She was working that tooth over. Every so often she would come up to me and ask me to try to pull it. Finally last week it really was loose enough. She asked me to try to pull it. I tried without much success, she told me to keep trying. I did and there was a little blood, she told me "KEEP TRYING MOMMY!!" It turns out I just didn't have a good enough grip because once I got a napkin it popped right out. No dangly sideways teeth for this kid!! And now she has the top 4. There is one that is looser than the others, so while they all get their wiggle time, this one is definitely on her hit list. Yeah, I don't see them lasting until Christmas and I can't wait to be able to scrap the "All I Want For Christmas" page for her!!