Soon to be toothless

This precious princess came out of her room last night (long after we had put her to bed), and announced that she had a loose tooth! She is thrilled! You should have seen the look on her face... big, bright eyes, and a huge smile. She has been waiting for this moment since she started Kindergarten, I think. The majority of the kids in her class have lost at least one, if not many more, and Grace kept asking why she wasn't loosing any teeth. We just had to keep telling her that they will come out when her permanent teeth are ready to come in. A part of me wonders if she wasn't in her room wiggling a tooth until it got loose.

Being the sentimental mom that I am, it almost made me cry (my husband is sure to tell me to get a grip when he reads this). I just can't imagine this beautiful face being toothless, and then having bigger teeth! Which brings up the next question... where is she going to put those bigger teeth? Despite her talking all the time, her mouth just isn't that big! It houses the teeth she currently has, but shows no room for more at the moment. It will be interesting to see how they come in though, because she sucked her thumb until she was 4 or 4 1/2. Will she be a rabbit like her momma was, or did we dodge the buck teeth? Only time will tell. But in the mean time, I'm just gonna sulk because my baby girl is growing up, and now her pending loss of teeth is just rubbing it in my face that she's not going to be little forever.