Being the younger sister, Vera always is the second to hit the big milestones.  She is also the queen of immediate gratification and has no patience for waiting for anything.  So when AJ lost her first baby tooth, Vera wanted to lose hers right then.  Of course, being 18 months younger, she was no where near the point of actually losing one.  So she had to wait.  

Over the last year or so, she has obsessed on and off about losing a tooth.  A couple of times one has felt loose, but it has never actually happened…until last night.  Shortly after dinner Vera came over saying her tooth was loose and this time she was right.  Not only was one tooth loose, but two of them were very wiggly.  

Once she realized that they were really loose, she wanted one of them out.  She would not hear that she had to wait until it got looser and if you told her that you couldn’t make it come out IMMEDIATELY then she would go into her infamous meltdown mode.  This happened several times throughout the evening.  She kept wiggling them until she had gotten them to the point where I didn’t think it would take long to have them out.  

She went to summer camp this morning and could not wait to show everyone that it was loose.  I let the counselor know that she might have at least one of them out by the end of the day.  I however, didn’t think to warn her about the melt downs.  I would learn that I should have thought to do that.

When I went to pick up the girls at the end of the day, I learned of the excitement that had ensued with Vera’s tooth.  She had continued to be obsessed with getting it out throughout the day.  And she had gone into meltdown mode any time she was told that it would not come out.  When it continued not to fall out, she engaged AJ to assist her by twisting the tooth to get it to come out.  So there they are, Vera with her mouth wide open and AJ with her hand in Vera’s mouth twisting her tooth.  This caused quite the scene at summer camp today.  But they proved that persistence pays, as shortly before I arrived to pick them up AJ succeeded in twisting Vera’s tooth out.

Apparently, the obsession was only with having the first experience.  Thankfully, the other loose tooth has been left alone since the first one came out and I have been advised by Vera that she will let it fall out naturally.  Hopefully, she will follow through with that.  I think there are several people who will be thankful for that.