Two Front Teeth

After the first one was gone 

Cam lost his two front teeth in perfect time this year - just before the Christmas season.  He let the first one wiggle and hang and hang and wiggle until he woke up one morning with it gone.  I was in his bed.  It literally just fell out.  The one that was left looked rather pitiful as it shifted over and looked like it was smack dab in the middle of his mouth.  Tony joked and said that he had his application ready at the Waffle House.

The next was quite the opposite from just letting loose.  On Thanksgiving afternoon as he and Carson were playing on the trampoline and me and sister were just settling into a food coma and perusing the sale papers, we heard a siren coming across the yard.  I recognized it immediately as not being Maeve, but one of mine indeed.  He bursts into the house screaming for me and that his tooth has been knocked out and that he was bleeding!  I lead the bloody mess to the sink and calmed him down.  I finally understood what all the panic was over:  he swallowed his tooth and was afraid the tooth fairy wouldn't come.    A very dramatic scene for a six year old boy - perhaps his two worst fears all in one - swallowing something he wasn't supposed to and needing painful procedures or medicine to fix that mistake and missing out on an opportunity to get some money for his wallet.  No wonder he was freaking out!

He finally gained his composure and was ok from the shock of it all.  His smile was much better as the no-teeth-at-all look was much better than the snaggle one in the middle.  And, the Tooth Fairy actually gives out more money for a knockout!

Toothless grin after he realized he was gonna be alright

He can have that classic wish:  "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!"