Another milk tooth ~~

Yes, this is quite a detailed description of what happened to one of her milk tooth. Do not read on if you cannot stand blood and biological human stuff and your imagination will run wild :) Our princess had been bothered by initially one (upper incisor), then two (another upper incisor), then three milk teeth (the last lower incisor that's still baby tooth) which are getting loose. 爸爸 tried to pull out one of the loosest one (top right rabbit tooth) but she make so much noise and it's still not loose enough when he tried last week. It seems annoying to her that it's a bother when she's eating. It seems about time to drop too as her 2 front teeth are getting into funny position, as if something under the gums is pushing them apart at first, then together recently and leaving gaps with her other teeth. Kinda like a volcano waiting to erupt :P. Literaly. Found out tooth growth is also called eruption.

When we pick her up from school, the first thing she said is "My tooth came off at school!". Then came all our questions "Is it painful? Did it bleed? When it happened etc...". She passed me the tooth, and started telling her story. It happened during recess when she was eating her honey stars. She said the tooth came off and dropped to the floor. There was blood but she use tissue to dab on her gums and it eventually stopped bleeding. She told her class teacher after recess and teacher gave her a tissue to keep her tooth temporarily. Her friends shared stories about tooth fairy and the rewards they got when they put their tooth under pillow for tooth fairy. Before this she had told us one of her good friends got 10 cents. Today she told us another friend got RM1 and yet another one was RM10! How come the tooth fairy reward also affected by inflation? :) I had to tell her Tooth Fairy does not have that kind of money as there are millions of children all over the world and each child has 20 millk teeth to replace with permanent teeth. I didn't mention Tooth Fairy will be bankrupt otherwise it would invite more questions about what is bankrupt.

One of the boys in her class ZY who teased her a lot called her "bor geh" (which means no tooth in Hokkien). She said her other friends "yeeeee..." and "yeeeeerrr.." when her tooth came off but no one else made fun of her, thank goodness.

She's super cheeky and happy today. Not sure if it's because a load off her chest with the tooth gone, or is it due to the new sky blue leotard that fitted her better.

Tooth Fairy gave her RM1 in exchange for the tooth she put under her pillow. She showed me the RM1 this morning. When asked if she's happy, she shook her head, sulk a little and said "No, because my tooth is taken away!" She also said there is no fairy in this world and she keep asking who gave her the RM1 :)

So in memory of her teeth growth, here is her record so far. Picture originally from http://www.simplyteeth.com/., I added dates according to her case. It's a good site to refer for all things about teeth.

Photo credit: http://www.simplyteeth.com/

 

Photo credit: http://www.simplyteeth.com/