Drew lost his first tooth!

On December 28, 2011, Drew finally lost his first tooth! It's been loose for a while now but he wanted it to come out on its own. Yesterday, he told me that his tooth felt weird. Sure enough, I looked at it and part of it had come away from the gums - it was definitely coming out. So, I just worked it back and forth (mostly back) and it bled a little bit until eventually I stopped. Knowing it wasn't going to come out unless we took a jab at it real fast and Drew not wanting to do that (can't blame him!), I let it be. When David got home, he saw that it now was half-way hanging out and offered to pull it for Drew. Drew didn't want to so we moved onto dinner. David remarked that eating would be a whole lot easier if he pulled the tooth out. But this still didn't convince Drew. Suddenly, with Drew's first bite, tears came. We rinsed his mouth out, I took a look at it, and then I pulled on it to see how much farther we had to go. Luckily, that was it! The tooth was out and Drew just looked at me with a mild "ouch" and was surprised to see the tooth was out of his mouth. He was so happy! He went on to eat dinner with no pain and kept saying how weird it felt not having that tooth there. We joked about how Drew is starting to lose his teeth and Drake is still getting his in!

The funniest part is that we put the tooth in a plastic bag to hide under his pillow and Drew woke up this morning telling us that he was holding onto the bag all night until he couldn't anymore. Then, he felt the dollar under his pillow! The interesting thing is that the tooth fairy reported this being a bit of a hard job because Drew did in fact have the bag clutched in his hands. He had to be rolled over and woken a bit to disengage the tooth. So, we are now on to the journey that has become Drew losing his baby teeth and getting his permanent ones in!