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Today is my birthday. 38 years young, baby! And this morning I got one of the best birthday gifts EVER. EVER!! It all started at breakfast. Silas mentioned his loose tooth hurting more than usual while chewing. <\/p>\n

This is Silas’ first loose tooth – a much anticipated event. He’s been eager to lose his teeth for about 2 years now. I’ve heard him ask many of his older-kid friends when they started losing their teeth. About a year ago, apparently feeling that he was behind schedule, Silas asked his dentist when his teeth would finally start getting loose and begin falling out and was utterly devastated when she told him that girls typically loose their teeth before boys and he still may have a while to wait. I watched him visibly deflate with her response. Devastated I tell ya, completely devastated. Over the course of the school year Silas has kept track of every classmate that has lost a tooth – their age, gender, what time of day the tooth came out, if there was risk of swallowing it with their food, etc. (details, details, details). <\/p>\n

So finally, Silas’ day arrived. Smack dab on my birthday. At the breakfast table I ask him to show me the tooth’s wiggle status. Whoa! Significant progress from our last check a couple days ago. This tooth is ready to come out. I don’t make a big deal about it and simply say “Ooooo. It’s getting’ close!” We finish getting ready for school – get dressed, brush teeth, come hair, wash faces. At the end of this morning ritual Silas always gives me a big smacker of a kiss after I’m done washing his face. After the smacker, I move my face in real close to his and say with a bit of a hushed mischievous tone “What d’ya say we try an give that tooth a ‘lil tug?” I grin. He practically jumps out of his pants with excitement and before I can blink takes his pointer finger and yards the tooth right out of his mouth! It goes flying and we lose it momentarily (it somehow got stuck to the bottom of his sock), all the while the both of us yipping and cheering ecstatically. Ivan comes running into the bathroom and joins the celebration. <\/p>\n

It was freakin’ awesome. <\/p>\n

We finally contain ourselves and pile into the van to go to school: Silas gripping his ziplock baggy with the still-bloody tooth inside so he can show his teacher and classmates, Ivan shaking his head in disbelief in his adult-mannered way, and me grinning ear to ear with joy. <\/p>\n

How the loss of a little tiny baby tooth can make a birthday mama so fulfilled with a sense of achievement? …..I’m not even going to try to understand, let alone explain. We might as well have summited Mt. Everest this morning. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n


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