So have you figured out why we call them Shark Teeth? A shark has many rows of teeth. As one tooth gets broken off another tooth moves forward into it's place. Just like Corrine. As her baby tooth falls out, the adult tooth moves into it's place.
She has lost 2 teeth-the bottom front-and both have happened this way.
Right before our vacation this summer she went to the dentist. She had lost one of her front bottom teeth, but the other wasn't even wiggly. Teeth are suppose to come in and out in pairs. Since she didn't have the pair come out close to eachother we started to suspect that she might not have an adult tooth under her 2nd bottom front tooth. It runs in my family to have missing adult teeth. (I have a baby molar still in good shape at 31 years old!) They did an x-ray but they couldn't tell from it if she did have the adult tooth, so they said when she came back in in December they would do the BIG x-rays to check.
One day when we were in Yellowstone this summer she said "my tooth is lose." We told her not to wiggle it since we didn't want a tooth without an adult tooth under it to fall out. She kept saying over the rest of the trip it was wiggly, and she could feel a tooth coming in behind it.
Sure enough we took a look and she did have an adult tooth coming in behind it and her tooth was wiggly. Our fears of her getting the dreaded missing adult tooth curse ended right then.
Lastnight it finally became lose enough and she went into the bathroom and pulled on it and it fell out. She heard a 'tink', looked down to get it and it was gone.
We searched the bathroom high and low 5 times. We got out a flashlight to check around, we emptied the toothbrush cups and went through everything, but there was NO tooth to be found. She was standing over the sink, so it probably went down the drain.
Corrine was ok with this and said she'd just write a note telling the tooth fairy what had happened and hope that would be alright.
(You can see the hole from the tooth in this picture.)
The tooth fairy thought it was ok and left her this note and Gold Dollar.
(You can see the adult tooth already coming in in this picture.)
She said next time she pulls a tooth out, she's going to make sure the drain cover is closed!
1 comment:
I like the shark teeth name. That has happened with several of Abby's teeth too. The adult teeth always look so crooked and out of place when the baby tooth comes out. I've been amazed at how they've straightened out on their own. I'm glad Corrine's adult tooth was really there and everything worked out so well (minus the missing tooth). Glad she was a good sport about it.
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