The Great Tooth Race

Yesterday was a grand event in the VanWey house.

As you know Mikayla has a loose tooth, her first one and she is quite proud of it. She has been talking about it nonstop and we all were amazed that her younger brother Brenden hasn't lost any teeth yet andMikayla was getting ready to lose her.

Now Brenden and Mikayla are only 15 1/2 months apart in age, (No that was NOT planned!) so it really isn't all that surprising. Brenden was a late bloomer in regards to his teeth. He didn't get his first tooth until he was 14 months. We were starting to worry that he may never get his teeth. LOL They told us at that time that he would probably keep them longer than most kids too, so we knew this was a possibility.

Mikayla has been busy wiggling that tooth and trying to make it come out. All of sudden yesterday she got scared and she decided she doesn't want it to come out. That is until big brother Brenden came home from school. All of a sudden the kid who had no loose teeth had one about to fall out. I tried so hard not to laugh when he showed me. When I asked him how that happened he said it happened when he was eating an orange at school. LOL Apple might make sense but an orange? HA.

My theory is that Brenden was not going to let his little sister show him up in this and he started wiggling that tooth like crazy. So yesterday afternoon we had two kids wiggling their teeth and I told them it was a race.

Here are the two grins full of teeth..

We did get a winner by the end of the night. Can you guess who the winner is?

Brenden beat his sister and got that tooth out. Mikayla is still wiggling that tooth but is very scared to get the tooth out now. She went to bed shaking last night afraid of that tooth coming out. It is very loose and will be out by the weekend I predict. But it was a fun night in the VanWey house waiting to see who would lose their tooth first.

Steroid week is almost over and it has been a good week as far as steroids go. She has her moments but she seems much more happy this round and we will take it!

Christie