Something Exciting!

See this beautiful girl?  Do you see anything different about her?

In case you missed it, here's a closer look for you. :o)

Still didn't see it?  Well, how about now?

Yes, that's right!  She lost her first tooth! :o)  Miss Excited was in our room at 6:20 this morning exclaiming, "I have something really exciting to show you!  Here, you have to feel it!"  Half awake I wasn't sure what was going on  I reached in her mouth and felt the tooth wiggle more than it had and said, "If you keep working on it, it might be ready to come out sometime next week."

I guess "sometime next week" was too far away for her, for Miss Bit returned about 20 minutes later and said, "Mommy, it's really loose now, and bleeding."  I looked in her mouth and there was her tooth, almost horizontal.  :shudder:

Now, I'm not saying Lil's a wimp, but I will say she can be a bit of a drama queen when it comes to pain.  I saw that tooth and knew it had to come out for there was no way in the world she could eat with it like that.  I grabbed a tissue and began to wiggle it back and forth (all the while arguing with Brien about how he should be the one doing this--I hate causing my kids pain).  I pushed it back and then grabbed and "pop" out it came.  Wow.

It barely bled and the tooth looks so itty bitty in my hand.  I can't believe it happened so quickly.  I can't believe how much more grown-up she seems all of a sudden.  Where did my bitty Bitty go?

And the Bit?  Well, needless to say she's thrilled!
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Today's Sparklies:

1.  I got out the camera to snap some pix of the Bit and the Bean started hamming it up with "cheeeeeeeeeeeeese" over across the room.  So, I snapped one of her as well:

2.  Beanie and I made a trip to the bank to see if we could find some "golden dollars" for the tooth fairy.  She says she likes to give out one of those for each tooth.  I can get behind that.
3.  Lil's sheer and utter joy at losing that first tooth. :o)
4.  Not feeling sad because this was something Hannah wanted so desperately but never got to experience.  I have no mixed emotions here.  I'm nothing but thrilled for Lil.
5.  Nana told me Jocelyn lost her first tooth this week as well! :o)
6.  Dinner with Pop and "the girls". 
7.  Making big plans for the weekend.

Milestone:
Well, it's happened, this is the first event Lily has experienced which Hannah didn't.  I thought I would be a lot more down yo about it, but I'm not.  I think it comes in part from having so many older cousins those their teeth first.  It was much harder with Miles since he and Han were the same age.  I don't fool myself and think they'll all be this easy, for surely they won't.  But, I don't like to borrow trouble, so I won't think about that right now.  Instead, I'll bask in my Bitty's joy in having that tooth OUT. :o)