Lulu lost her first tooth!

Lucy with a missing space where a tooth once stood . . .age 5 years 2 1/2 months

Can it be true? I always think of Lucy as my baby, so I was a little bit shocked when she told me a few days ago that her tooth was loose. Then she made the tragic error of telling her dad. Panch can NOT let a loose tooth stay in any of our children's mouths for long. He LOVES to pull teeth. Kind of sick I know, but he is good at it. (maybe he should have been a dentist). Anyway, he had that tooth out minutes after she told him it was loose. Oh and by the way - Yes that is blood all over her face. What ever happened to just letting a tooth fall out naturally? I thought that Lucy would be so excited about the whole tooth fairy thing. In fact, I have been saving a tooth fairy pillow, that someone gave me for her, at a shower 5 years ago. But of course kids never do what you expect them to, and she didn't seem to care one way or another that there was a handful of change under her pillow the next day. My guess is that either her brothers have already educated her on the likes of tooth fairies, or that a handful of change just isn't that exciting in these current economic times.