Avery loses her first tooth!!

Elijah has been out of town for two days and will be gone for 9 more. Avery's tooth had not been that loose until yesterday morning when she bit into an apple. I was dreading this. I really hoped that it would hold on till Elijah came back. One bite into that apple and we had a hanger. She's been wiggling it for days and I've been avoiding the issue. Avery has been asking me for days to just pull it, but I know how dramatic she can be and I had no desire to get her (and me) all upset. Finally tonight I sat her on the counter in the bathroom and tried to tie floss around it for a good 10 minutes. She lost patience with that pretty quickly and asked again to just have me pull it. She was being so tough and I was the one being a wuss. I got a washcloth for extra grip and held on to the bottom of it and gave one hard yank and it popped right out. She didn't even feel it, she had to ask me if it was out yet. Such a trooper.

Now the whole tooth fairy is another issue. This child wakes up if you even put a hand on her door knob, let alone try to sneak in and take something from under her pillow. I have been trying to figure out how to do this for weeks, ever since we found out in Florida that her tooth was even loose. I finally decided to tell her that since she's such a light sleeper that we'd write the tooth fairy a letter and she could draw a pretty picture for her and tape it to the door. When she asked why, I said because no one can know what the tooth fairy looks like so if you start to wake up she'll just leave, and you don't want that. Hey, since we're already lying about the fairy in the first place, who cares about the details???