Finally it happened! Vaibhav lost two of his lower teeth last week and boy is he thrilled!!Being the absolute youngest in his class, well actually the entire school, his teeth were all strong and intact while his classmates’ fell like skittles. And then one of his friends from outside of school lost his teeth and he is a good six months younger than our man. I think that’s what did it.
Vaibhav stopped brushing his teeth at night “Its ok, let the germs come and live on my teeth, then they’ll have to fall, right”? I’ve caught him many a time in front of the mirror carefully checking if any of his teeth were shaking…..even a wee bit. And I guess with all that checking two of them did startto wobble.
Now, just to give you a bit of background. V’s school has an in-school dentist, lovely lady, I hear, whom the boys are very fond of, especially the first graders. Of course they’ll warm up to anyone who’s kind and reminds them vaguely of mommy during recess. Vaibhav is no exception and has been making regular visits to the dentist to check for cavities, get a new toothbrush and off late to beg the doc to pull of his loose teeth.
The other day he came home with his teeth in a Ziploc. “ The dentist said they were now loose enough to pull them off, oh you should have seen the blood, ma”!! He was super excited to say the least and gave me his biggest toothless grin!
I am personally petrified of the Dentist and I don’t think I’m a minority. How in the world did this boy just go by himself and get 2 teeth pulled off? Wasn’t he scared? Didn’t the blood freak him out even a little? Didn’t he need to hold mamma’s hand?
I guess not! And I guess I better come to terms with this new ultra independent generation that just casually takes in everything in their stride. I was thinking to myself, Wow, my little boy is growing up. His teeth have started to fall, in a few years he’s going to get all hairy and then one day he’ll tower over me.
But I had nothing to worry about…as yet. That night, Vaibhav carefully placed his teeth under the pillow and double-checked if the tooth fairy will know the address and remember to come (remember, he’s Buffett Jr?) and give him his 2 dollars. My big boy was still little :-)
Oh, the toothfairy gave us a visit, alright. And the smile she put on his face that early morning, is one that I’ll never forget!
