Busy week for tooth fairy...

You might have noticed on some pictures that Eliana's two front teeth were extremely crooked and have been for a while.  This is because they were very loose and dangling by some (very stubborn) thin threads.  The teeth have actually been loose for months and we thought that they would have fallen out in China.  But 5 weeks later, they were still hanging on for dear life.

And then one day, Mommy was wiggling one of Eliana's teeth, like she regularly does to see how loose the tooth is.  And...it came off!  To everyone's surprise!

Everyone was astounded and wanted to look at the tooth and at the gap in her smile.

Here is her little stubborn tooth that wouldn't come off.  You can sort of see that Eliana is wearing a necklace that is a white thing in the shape of a tooth.  It's a little tooth-shaped container and that's where the tooth lives now.  

And then, a few days later, Eliana herself was wiggling the other tooth and out it came too!  This one was less of a shock, partly because she had been playing around with it so much that it was bleeding a little bit, so we knew that it was ready to go.

In the resulting gap, you can already see two permanent teeth coming in.  Also, we hear a little bit of a lisp when Eliana talks now.  =)

So the tooth fairy, or actually in our house, we call it the Tooth Fairy Mouse, has visited twice in one week.  Each time bestowing a dollar taped to a handwritten letter.  The girls claim that the handwriting on the letter looks EXACTLY like Daddy's handwriting, but he denies it...  Karina, our logical one, is convinced that there IS no fairy and that Daddy is creating this whole charade.  Eliana, on the other hand, has a wild imagination and is not so sure...