First One In...First One Out

Our family had a momentous occasion last night. MAX LOST HIS FIRST TOOTH!!!!!!! :)
It has been really loose for a couple of weeks and last night it came out! It was actually knocked out (accidentally of course) by his daddy. They were being silly together and when John was trying to tickle him, Max's mouth must have bumped against John too hard because lo and behold the tooth popped out onto the floor. He did bleed which was cause for drama (Max's...not ours). After about 5 minutes of biting down on a wet paper towel and rinsing his mouth out he forgot about the blood as he kept checking out the gaping hole in his mouth :)

He left his tooth under his pillow for his first visit from the Tooth Fairy. He was all excited before bed and kept trying to demonstrate to me before bed how he thought the Tooth Fairy would sneak the tooth out and replace it with $.

She was successful because this morning he woke up and found 4 quarters, a 50 cent piece and a NOTE FROM THE TOOTH FAIRY! He was thrilled. He took the note to school for show and tell.

My baby boy is certainly on his way to being a really big boy now! I got a couple of pics that I will post as soon as I get them off my dad's camera. I'll also post a pic of the note Max got from the Tooth Fairy :)

Oh yeah, the blog title, the first tooth that Max lost was the first tooth that broke through the Saturday after Thanksgiving in 2003.
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On another topic...Max had an ENT appointment this morning. His right ear looks great and the tube is clear. The left ear...not so much. He had a hearing screening and the audiologist and Dr. said that the tube loooks like it could be clogged and/or working its way out and there is a small amount of fluid behind the ear drum. This is causing a mild hearing loss in the left ear...again! He has to go back in 6 weeks to have it checked again. If it seems worse at that time we may have to discuss replacing the tube. He is currently on his 3rd set of tubes and we were hoping 3rd time would be the charm but maybe not. Fortunately, his hearing loss has always been attributed to the fluid and once that is gone the hearing is normal. I am praying this stays the case. I am putting this into God's hands and believing that God will heal Max's ears in His time...not ours.