The First Tooth!

Big day for Jack Dorris. He has lost his first tooth!

Actually he lost it on Friday after Field Day at school. Thank goodness Mike was there so we could make an appropriately big deal about it.

Jack, actually, is very scared of blood. He used to panic at nosebleeds and when he cuts his finger or scrapes his knee he has to lay down or else he passes out. Needless to say I don't think he's going into medicine.

So I tug on J's very loose tooth but he stops me and twists it out himself. He's all very proud and happy, but then there's more blood than he expects. So he hands me his soaked paper towel and runs to the trash can to gag and gag. Poor kid. Then he starts to sob b/c he just feels so crappy. We lay him down on the nurse's couch and Mike and I hang out with him for a while b/c our kid is WAY pale. This all happens in the office where I work, thank goodness. Soon my lovely co-workers start coming through to ooh and aah over Jack, so he starts to feel better.

Friday night after Jack puts his tooth under his pillow for the tooth fairy I ask to see it. He could only show it to me with his eyes closed b/c he says it still "freaked him out". And he could only sleep near the pillow, not on it. Poor kid! The tooth fairy left him a bundle, but only b/c it was the first tooth, and only because it was hard as hell on him.

Here's a picture of the cutie, I haven't loaded any of his "new hole" yet. Poor kid, Momma's saving for a new tile floor so neither of us have had haircuts for a few weeks. He just looks like a sloppy spoiled private school kid, right?

Em