It finally happened!  Our girl has become among the officially snaggle-toothed.

For a week and a half, she ate around her loose tooth so that she could make it to California, where her grandfather could pull her tooth for her.  That baby was hanging on by, well, the skin of its teeth.

One afternoon, it was time to pull.  G-Papp and Mira sat down together, tested out the wiggle-waggle level of the tooth (high), and got down to business.  The tooth popped right out, and there were smiles all around.  Snaggle-toothed smiles from one of us.

Taking her treasure from under Mira’s pillow, The Tooth Fairy, left behind a note congratulating Mira on her bravery and on losing her very first tooth ever.  She also left some money in exchange for the precious tooth.

In the morning, Mira came into our room to read us the note from The TF and told us she had a surprise.  She had given half of the money to her brother to put in his piggy bank.  How much prouder could we be of her?  She even wrote The Tooth Fairy a thank you note (see above).  Politeness, generosity, and gratitude seem to be growing in along with the big girl teeth.

Congratulations to our beautiful, big girl!