It dawned on me a few weeks ago that Asher should start losing his teeth soon, but I didn't think much more about it after that. Well, last night he lost his first tooth and his second one this morning before school. The funny part of this story is how he ended up losing two teeth within twelve hours of each other.
Last night, the boys, making a classic boy decision, made up a game they called "Boat." This game consisted of taking the cushions off the couch, stacking them up, then climbing on top, and balancing for a few moments before jumping down to the ground.
I was in the kitchen completely oblivious to what was going on in the other room. I just heard giggles. It should be written in the parenting handbook that just because one hears giggles, it does not guarantee the kids aren't doing something boneheaded (though we all know that silence is much more troublesome). Anyway, Asher jumped off the tower of cushions right as Simon was running by and Asher's mouth smacked into Simon's unusually hard head. Simon was hardly phased, but Asher's mouth was all bloody and his bottom two teeth were really wiggly.
Joseph was quite alarmed at first, especially when the first tooth popped out after Asher had been playing with them for about fifteen minutes (after he'd calmed down). It hurt him a bit and there was more blood seeping from his mouth, but then he got very excited about his first visit from the Tooth Fairy. He kept saying, "I can't believe I just lost my first tooth" and "I wonder what prize the Tooth Fairy will bring me." We kept telling him he would get money, but he just kept on wondering what his "prize" would be.
Unfortunately, he had a difficult time eating the chicken wings we had for dinner. The other tooth was wiggly and hurt a lot when he tried to bite the meat off the bone. I know you all know the feeling. Asher was afraid he'd never be able to eat ever again. I taught him how to pull the meat off with his fingers so he could pop it in his mouth and chew with his back teeth. That way he wouldn't starve to death. Oh, the melodrama!
Still, Asher was excited for his prize. He dictated a note to Moses to leave under his pillow. It read: "Dear Tooth Fairy, I wonder what you will bring me. I still don't know what the present you will bring me is. Love, Asher." Moses even dated it on the top.
I really wanted Asher to write it, but he so afraid of misspelling words that he won't even try, despite the fact that he's doing great at reading and is picking up new words at an ever increasing pace. I keep telling him that it's okay to write phonetically at his age, but he doesn't believe me. He sees Akiko and Moses doing so well with their weekly spelling lists, so he wants to be perfect, too. I try to reinforce that they have had years more practice and that they had to work hard to get to where they are, but he's so impatient about it all and gets frustrated. I know he won't be like this forever, but he is doing great for the level he is at.
Anyway, Asher was lucky the Tooth Fairy was having trouble sleeping last night, because she suddenly sprang out of bed at 3am to take care of her duties. Moses (whom we have told the truth about Santa, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy) kept trying to get me to reveal the secret of how we switch the tooth for money without waking them up. He wouldn't take "you guys sleep really deeply" for an answer.
Asher was very excited about his prize when he woke up this morning. He got "a dollar bill that has so many ones on it!" Then the other tooth fell out as he was getting ready for school. He's pretty stoked about tonight. He now talks with a slight lisp.
While I knew his teeth would fall out soon, and I believe they would have on their own in about a month, sometimes accidents happen that speed up those processes.
PS: Speaking of doing well with spelling, Akiko won her class spelling bee and will compete in the school bee at some point in the future. Obviously, she gets that from me (but only because I have no idea how well Joseph ever did in his).
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