Isaac and his two front teeth

Its hard to imagine how much little kids play with loose teeth.  If they weren't all doing it, it would be some kind of pathology.  Isaac plays with his loose teeth almost as much as he breathes.  And like a lot of kids he is worryfascinated by them.  We get a constant update: its loose, no really loose.  And then there are displays of looseness--he wiggles the tooth around with his tongue and his fingers.  And finally there are the reports--its bleeding, its twisted, I think it is falling out.  The only thing that ends all of this is when the tooth does, in fact, actually fall out. 

This most recent time was the first I was with Isaac when it happened. I picked him up from after school and he told me, of course, the tooth was loose.  I looked and it was very loose.  In fact, the tooth was no longer attached on the right side, just the left side.  It was really quite gross.  But it wasn't bleeding and he didn't want to yank it (and really, I can't blame him, I had a loose tooth yanked once and it was not fun).

We were in store when all of a sudden Isaac got very quiet.  Eerily quiet.  I sat Beethan down and looked across the store and I saw him holding something in his hand.  And then he looked up, and just like that Isaac was missing his tooth.  The two front teeth are now gone.  He beamed with pride and I was shocked at just how cute he looked.  He is growing up and it is wonderful to get to watch it happen. 

And now he has moved on to yet another loose tooth.  But this one seems like it is a month or two away.  Daily reports have already started to come in.