All I Want for Christmas

is my ONE front tooth!

4 days before Christmas, Tyler finally lost a front tooth!  It was almost a little bittersweet since it was his front tooth he chipped when he was a year old and has been his little trademark since then.  He has bumped that tooth a million more times and on many occasions I was just sure it would fall out.  But it hung tight for a looong time!  And finally, right before Christmas he was eating a cupcake with little edible silver balls on top and bit right into one.  They were as hard as a rock, of course, and he turned to me with a bloody mouth and said "Mom, I think my tooth is going to fall out."  Sure enough, it did!  And the lucky boy got to put it under his pillow just a couple days before Christmas.

He looked so funny with that lopsided hole in his mouth!

 He put the tooth in a Ziploc bag with a note for the tooth fairy to put under his pillow.  He really wanted to ask the tooth fairy if he could keep his tooth.  He said he wanted to keep it since it was so big! :)

 Normally our tooth fairy thinks $1 is plenty for a tooth, but this time she thought since it was so sentimental, he needed $2.  :)  Boy, was he happy when he woke up!

Here is his cute little note he left for the tooth fairy.