A changed smile

A little over a week ago, Julia lost her front, top tooth! That's right folks, her smile is now changed forever! It's the third tooth she's lost, but this has been the hardest one for me for sure! The bottom ones were not that noticeable, you know? But, now her old baby toothed smile is gone...replaced by that cute snaggle-toothed one we now are getting used to.

She told Nate she was ready for him to pull it. He got the floss tied around it. Just when he was ready to pull it, she changed her mind and said she didn't want him to pull it after all. Then, she started saying she would pull it. She gave the floss a good tug a couple times. Nate told her he'd be happy to pull it for her if she'd like him too. She decided she just really wasn't ready to have it pulled. But, then, while she was looking at herself in the mirror and seeing what it looked like when she gave the floss a good yank...the tooth came out! So, she pulled her tooth out HERSELF! We all heard it clank around against the door before it fell to the floor. Thankfully, Nate found it (and not Simon).

We were all excited for her. Look at her showing Liliana! I think that's so cute!
She called her grandparents to tell them the good news.

She was so very excited and happy!

She wanted to be able to keep the tooth, so she wrote a letter to the tooth fairy, asking her to leave the tooth. We explained to her that the tooth fairy probably wouldn't give her any money, if she didn't give her the tooth, but she was okay with that.

It turned out...the tooth fairy gave her a dollar anyway and wrote back on the note, "That's fine Julia. If you ever decide you want to give up the tooth, I'll give you another dollar." Julia was thrilled! {It's been nine days and she still hasn't given up the tooth, but has considered it a couple times}.

My baby is growing up! It's so hard to face that sometimes. I have to admit though, she sure looks just as cute with that tooth missing. :)