Toothless Princess

Before

After

Well, it lasted for a whole 7 months following her big injury last summer, but we finally had to bid farewell to Maddie's poor little grey tooth this week. You'll recall that last July, Madeline had an unfortunate couch dancing accident and smashed her two front teeth into our coffee table. After several dentist visits where we were told to just watch and wait to see what happened with her tooth, her x-rays this week showed signs that her body was rejecting the tooth and a small abcess was forming. Dr. Stevens recommended that we have the tooth pulled so as to avoid any damage to her permanent teeth. To our surprise, Maddie was thrilled! We scheduled the extraction for Thursday morning and the whole procedure took about 2 minutes. Maddie never even shed a tear. She loves her new little "window" and feels like a big girl. She could hardly wait to show it off at school this morning. The tooth fairy came and left Mads $4 under her pillow. Maddie says she got $4 because she is almost 4 years old...I'm guessing its because the tooth fairy had four singles and a twenty and didn't want to set too big of a precedent :-) You'll notice in her before picture Maddie is holding our elf, Chippie. Chippie makes special trips from the north pole when major events are happening with the kids. He arrived the night before Maddie's appointment with a note saying that he wanted to go with her to the dentist. She held him the whole time :-)