Firsts and Lasts

Amelia finished school. Here is a contrast pic of her first and last day.

It was so bright she is making a funny face, but we were in a rush to get to school so I didn't realize it. But you get the point. She has really lost that baby face. And maybe grown a little too. It was really important to her that she lose her first tooth in first grade at the school. Her teacher is the school's unofficial tooth puller and if you lose it there, you get to go to the office and get a plastic tooth box to put it in. Every kid in her class lost one and she was feeling a little left out. A week or so before the last day of school, her first one was a tiny bit loose. She spent the next 3 or 4 days wiggling and wiggling and wiggling that tooth. The night before the last day of school she was so desperate that she wanted me to try and pull it, but between the shrieking and squirming, I couldn't get it out. So finally on the last day after all the fun and all the kids went home, she asks her teacher to pull it. Sure enough it took 2 seconds and there it was. I could tell on Amelia's face that she wanted to scream or cry but did not want to do it in front of her teacher so she sat perfectly still. It was bleeding quite a bit and the teacher kind of screamed because it was so funny that it made her kind of embarrassed.  But pretty soon she was back to her usual grinning, confident self.