A blessing in disguise - Alexis loses a tooth

10 days ago Alexis fell on the stairs at her preschool and knock out one front teeth. She was very brave and only cried a little.

The tooth fairy of course came and she found $2 crisp bills under her pillow where the tooth used to be (now safely in Mommy's drawer, shhhhh)

What is a blessing is we used this opportunity to help Alexis stop sucking her thumb. We convinced her she may lose another tooth or her tooth can get infected if she still sucked her thumb. It's not completely false. There is an chance.

Alexis had been sucking her thumb since a baby and we tried all different soft methods to help her stop. No luck until now. We are secretly hoping this will stick. She agreed to wear a small glove at night to help her remember not to suck. Since it would be yucky to do so and that reminds her. It has been a week and we think it's working.

Crossing our fingers. ;-). Still a cutie with missing tooth. My cutie.