The moment we've been waiting for!

As I said in an earlier post, Lawson has some big news. Well, big for a 5 year old anyway. For a few weeks now we had been watching a tooth that seemed to get a little looser every day. Monday when I picked him up from school he told me that it had gotten VERY loose in the gym while playing. I looked at it for him and saw that it was literally about to fall out. I asked him if he wanted me to pull it and he emphatically said NO! So, I didn't.

I dropped him off at mom's for the afternoon and he showed them how loose it was and I again asked if he was sure he didn't want me to pull it. Again, NO! So, I head back to work.

I had been at work all of 5-10 minutes when I got a phone call. It was Lawson on the phone with squeals of delight! The first thing he said to me? "Mom, guess what??? I have GREAT news!" Then he told me that he was sucking on a straw and the tooth fell out and he had spit it on the floor. Ha. I knew it wouldn't take much for that tooth to fall out. He was so excited! I wish I could have recorded the phone call! It was hilarious!

That night he would at random times say, "Isn't it great mom that my tooth fell out?" Ha. Finally Jagger told him that he was tired of hearing about that tooth and it was giving him a headache. Ha. Old news to sweet Jag who has been without two front teeth since August. He just couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. :)

Anyway, here are the pictures my dad snapped right after the tooth came out. In one of them Lawson is holding the tooth in his hand although it is so tiny you can BARELY see it. The tooth fairy did not disappoint and left him a dollar under his pillow which he was MOST happy to find the next morning.

As I said, BIG news in the Young household. My baby is growing up, I'm afraid...