Another Lost Tooth

I have been talking about Adam a lot lately. It's time to include the other boys!

Jacob lost another tooth. They are dropping like flies. This is his 4th. He was wiggling it religiously, when he was finally rewarded. He said he hoped the Tooth Fairy would bring him $5. The most he has ever received is $2, which I think is very generous. I found a piece of paper with some questions about the Tooth Fairy that Jacob asked me after one of his teeth were lost.

"Have you met the Tooth Fairy before?"

"Have you seen her?"

"Are you lying?" (Thankfully I answered "no" to both of the above questions so I could feel truthful)

"Do you know her phone number?"

"How does she know when to come?"

"I think she builds a tooth castle with all those teeth."

I am just glad the teeth being lost are hidden on the bottom. I'm not ready to see his toothless grin yet. He seems to be getting very old, very quickly all of a sudden. Even his pants are getting shorter faster. He's already talking about how he's almost 8 (in 11 months). We used to punish him by making him sleep downstairs when he & Hunter wouldn't calm down and go to sleep at bedtime. Now he enjoys sleeping in "his room" downstairs and keeps asking when I'm going to move all my decorations out of there so it can be his room.

People tell me all the time that kids grow so fast. At first when they would tell me that, I would think, not really. I remember Jacob's first few years feeling like forever! Now all of a sudden, years are whizzing by like nothing. I think time goes faster the more kids you have.

Hunter told me recently that one of his teeth is loose. I felt dread set in. Stop growing please!!