Tooth Fairy Visits

In the Summer of 2006 Alyse and I had a stroller meets pavement accident. (I didn't put the brake on the stroller rolled off a step and tipped over.) As a result Alyse top middle tooth was damaged, along w/many other scrapes. That night we had a dentist shove her tooth back in, and everything has looked pretty good, the tooth didn't color and looked to have healed. Recently Alyse started complaining about her teeth hurting, so it was off to the dentist. We thought she must have a mouth full of cavities, because she loves chocolate so much. While there she got a clean bill of health until they looked at that tooth. It hadn't made it after all, and it needed to come out. So on Jan. 27, we headed to the dentist. Where we experienced trauma, and the removal of our babies first tooth. There were tears from Alyse and Mom--after all it was my fault. They say it could take 6 mo. for a new tooth or even possibly not until she's 7. She recovered very quickly, and we are telling ourselves it's kind of cute.

Alyse's new smile.

Alyse got $2.00 and a pack of M&M's
she doesn't understand money very much right now,
but
she does respond to M&M's.

Alyse sleeping with gauze in her mouth. She liked it in her mouth even slept the night with it like this. Even though the bleeding quit shortly after the extraction.

Her baby tooth and a tooth necklace.