She is getting so grown up. Time has flown by and now I have a daughter that feeds herself lunch when I don't get on it fast enough, she bakes with me and does most of the work. She often asks to read to me instead of wanting me to read to her. I still have those little things that I'm still holding onto. Her need for a hug after being in time out, a song every night for bedtime, and she still needs words of encouragement from me when she's trying to do something that's hard for her. That last one may never go away. I still often call my Mom when I'm struggling to get through something that's hard for me. I hope she always needs me in one way or another.
I realized today that I never got around to posting her end of school photos (below). Doesn't she look so grown up?
In case you weren't in the know...loosing a tooth is a right of passage for a 1st grader. During the school year all of Audrey's friends were constantly talking about how many teeth they had lost. They would often point her out saying that she was the only one who hadn't lost a tooth yet. Just a few days after school ended I was brushing her teeth and noticed that her bottom tooth was really loose. I told her she'd probably loose it within a couple days.
The next day I had forgot about her loose tooth and cut apples up to go with her lunch. She came running over to me and said that she swallowed something hard. After looking in her mouth I noticed that her tooth was gone. When I explained that she had swallowed it she had this horrified look on her face. The horrified look that comes only when you've waited a year to loose a tooth, a year to get a note from the tooth fairy, and a year to get accepted into the missing tooth club at school. She was distraught. I told her that this kind of thing happens all the time and that the tooth fairy would understand. After a couple hours she decided that she would write a note to the tooth fairy (letter below) and all would be well.
For the next several days she told everyone that she knew about her missing tooth. She couldn't have been prouder about her new achievement.
Hopefully she'll get a better look at her next tooth.
