Another Tooth!!!

Emily is beaming with excitement today... she lost her second tooth.

Here's the story:

It was just hanging around for several days now. She tried to pull it out with a paper towel on Saturday but said it hurt when she tried, so she stopped trying. She asked me this morning how many more days I thought it might be before it fell out and my response was a generous 'one day.' Moments later she was eating her breakfast and spit out a mouthfull of food on to a napkin. I asked her what was wrong and she said there was something hard in it. She looked confused and surprised but instantly took a new bite. I thought about it for a minute, still thinking this was quite strange and then realized... her tooth!!! Calmly I asked her if her tooth was still loose or if it had fallen out. She panicked and spit out the new mouthful and asked me to check for her. It was gone... then she panicked again and half crying asked how she would find it while looking at her pile of half-chewed food. She quickly began seaching and found it... and then dropped it... then found it again on the tile floor. I told her she had a hot potato tooth, as it kept escaping. She's determined not to let Daddy take it tonight by means of the tooth fairy and instead wants to start a collection of her baby teeth to auction off later. I'm sure she's not the first child eager to keep their baby teeth. :-) We'll see what Daddy has to say about her idea.