Oh the Drama!

Carie from Our Crooked Tree was the only one who guessed right regarding Jake's initial reaction to his first loose tooth! (sorry no prize, except 20 more years of friendship, lucky you!) It was an absolute nightmare.....

We had just finished lunch and I was cleaning up the dishes when Jake came running back into the kitchen half whining half crying that something was wrong with his tooth. I took a look, stuck my finger in, gave his bottom tooth a good wiggle and excitedly informed him that he had his first loose tooth. You would have thought I told the boy he couldn't play his Wii for the next gajillion years the way he reacted.

He immediately burst into tears. Dave and looked at each other, WTH??

Me/Dave: This is so exciting buddy! You are getting to be such a big boy!
Jake: I don't want to be a big boy!
Me/Dave: What's going on big guy, what's the matter?
Jake: I don't want to lose my teeth! I want to keep them forever! (still screaming and sobbing)
Me/Dave: Well, honey you are supposed to lose your baby teeth so your big grown-up teeth can come in, you know that. I bet some of your friends at school have already lost some of their teeth right?
Jake: But I love my baby teeth! If I don't take care of my teeth then they'll fall out and I won't have any teeth. (aha!)
Me/Dave: You DO take good care of your teeth, so that won't be a problem.
Jake: I'm keeping my mouth closed forever, so my teeth will never fall out. (do you promise?) (still sobbing, tears running down his face, snot pouring out his nose)
Me/Dave: But then the Tooth Fairy won't be able to come and visit you and leave you money for your tooth. We get to finally use that awesome tooth fairy pillow we won from SlackerMommy!
Jake: I don't want the tooth fairy to leave me anything!
Me/Dave: Now you are just talking crazy talk. You need to calm down, take a deep breath. It's going to be ok. Would you like to call A? Did you see that he lost his two bottom teeth the last time we saw him?
Jake: Mouth closed, shakes his head no, still crying.
Me/Dave: Do you want to call cousin L (who is Jake's authority on EVERYTHING) he's lost like 15 teeth. He can tell you everything there is to know about loose teeth.
Jake: Sobbing harder, shakes his head no.
Me/Dave: Should we call the Dr. Tom the dentist? He will tell you that everything is alright. We actually go to see him in a few weeks....
Jake: NO! He will be mad at me! (now crying even harder, I guess that was the wrong thing to say)
Me/Dave: Ok, Jake. You need to quit crying. blah blah blah (I don't even remember what we were pulling out of our butts to get him to quit crying, but we both ended up walking away and letting him settle down on his own. (The running dialogue in my head was saying, Dude. It's a freaking loose tooth. Deal with it. Quit with the crying already! But I didn't want to hurt his fragile male ego......nor did I want to be viewed as anything but the caring and gentle momma, but the time had come where he did need to just deal with it own his own.)

15 minutes later he FINALLY quits crying, his eyes are dryed, his nose is blowed, and he wants to see the fancy pillow that his tooth will go into. We then get hit with the real humdinger,

**Will the Tooth Fairy leave me 50 bucks so I can buy Mario Kart?**

So what is the going rate for a first tooth these days? We were thinking something along the lines of 5 bucks, then a dollar for each tooth after....do molars deserve more?


***Just for clarification***, we are NOT giving the child 50 dollars for his tooth. NO FREAKING WAY! I think we have decided on $5.00 and $1.00 for each tooth after. We will have to decide on the molars later on.
We did already get Mario Kart for him....that had already been decided and reserved. He played ALL DAY on Sunday. :)