Snaggletooth

A couple of weeks ago, Kaitlin came to me and told me that her mouth hurt behind her bottom front teeth. I took a look and could see her new teeth under the gums. One of the teeth had a tiny wiggle to it, but nothing major. A week or so later, she came to me again and said the same thing. The tooth didn't seem any looser though. So tonight,  about an hour after she went to bed, Kaitlin came out of her room and announced, very excitedly, that she had a loose tooth. It was bleeding a little and the new tooth had come through her gums. It was looser, but not dangerously loose. She was super excited and said that she wouldn't be able to sleep until it came out. we tried to explain that it could be a few days before it came out and she should try to think about something else so that she could get to sleep. About 30 minutes later, Keven went in to check on her and she was still wide awake messing with that tooth. I went in and we talked about Ethan's birthday tomorrow and how she really needed to go to sleep so that she wouldn't be too tired to go to Moe's for dinner and Skype with her cousins. The whole time she couldn't keep her tongue/fingers off that tooth. She just kept messing with it, twisting and wiggling it. We encouraged her to go to sleep and left. Within five minutes, she had come out of her room, tooth in hand! She was so proud of herself! She was also so worked up, she still couldn't get to sleep!! She kept sneaking out of her room and finally fell asleep in the hallway outside her door about 3 hours after we first put her to bed!