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Who Won the Longest Hair Contest– it Wasn’t the Only Surprise

First tooth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Who won the Longest Hair Contest in my family? I'll tell you later, but that wasn't the only surprise

Kate is the youngest niece in my family, she is five years old.

 

A surprise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kate is the youngest of four children. My sweet brother Mark is her Dad, and Diane is her mother. Gina, Maci and George are her sisters and brother. Chelsea is her Godmother.

 

Who Won the Longest Hair Contest it Wasn't the Only Surprise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kate tied with her sister Maci for having in the longest hair in our contest. (I'll show photos later…) But the real prize is she lost her front tooth and the other one is barely hangin'!!

Barely hangin! I love it. How does one bite into anything with a barely hangin tooth?

 

Long hair

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look at that hair!

Chelsea Kay-Kay misses you.

 

One tooth gone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you remember when you lost your first tooth?

Did the Tooth Fairy come?

Did you ever pull out a child's tooth?

 

Comments

25 responses to “Who Won the Longest Hair Contest– it Wasn’t the Only Surprise”

  1. Jackie

    The pink polish! The missing tooth! The grin! Is she available in your brocante? If so, I’ll take 2!

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  2. Laura

    how cute! She is adorable. I don’t remember losing my first tooth but I remember walking around with barely hanging-in-there teeth. Drove me nuts – I played with them with my tongue.
    Yes, the tooth fairy visited me often and I was thrilled to find money under my pillow.
    Sweet, wonderful memories 🙂

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  3. Zosia

    My daughter lost her first tooth on New Year’s Day, the second on Easter and her next few teeth always came out on some special occasion, so she felt pretty important. The tooth fairy kept coming and one time she found not only the tooth, but also a letter from Lilla under the pillow that said “Dear Tooth Fairy, what do you do with all the teeth you take from children? Please write back. Love, Lilla”. As you can imagine, the T. Fairy was surprised and had to figure out how and when to write back ;-). She did write back, she said “I collect the teeth in pretty jewellery boxes in my castle.” Lilla was very excited finding the letter under her pillow.
    Have a great weekend! Enjoy hanging with your nieces :-).

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  4. Sandy

    Adorable!
    When my children were small I wanted them to experience some magic and wonder upon losing a tooth. I kept some fine glitter in a salt shaker and a tiny pair of doll shoes handy for the event. Once they were asleep I would put the shoes on the dresser and sprinkle the glitter, carefully lift and reposition them to look like tiny tiptoeing footsteps surrounded by fairy dust.
    In our family silver dollars were passed down for the first tooth and silver half dollars for other remaining teeth. These were never spent but saved in old leather coin purse.
    My daughter used to carefully gather up the fairy dust and keep it in a tiny pill box, I think she still has it in her keepsake box.
    Thank you for reminding me of this fun memory.

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  5. Kathie B

    When we were clearing out my dad’s house after his death, we discovered that he’d saved all my baby teeth in a tiny manila envelope. Definitely an emotional moment for me.

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  6. natalie thiele

    I agree with Jackie- the pink polish. There’s something so charming about little tiny fingernails with chipped pink polish. Just darling.
    I remember having a tooth come out when I was 5. It seemed like it would fit up my nose, so I tried it. It was a spur-of-the-moment idea, I hadn’t really thought it out before testing, so once it was stuck up my nose I didn’t know what to do.
    I had to let my mother in on this one. She knew what to do, and off we went to the hospital, where I had to let everyone in on my clever idea.
    The doctor didn’t find it. No one did. That tooth never did show up.
    Hmmm. I bet I didn’t get my dime from the tooth fairy on that one. I wish my mother was still around so that I could ask her.
    Thank you for bringing back that long, lost memory.

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  7. Through the Milkhouse Door

    There’s only one way to lose a tooth:
    1. A spool of thread.
    2. Doorknob, a kitchen door is preferred.
    3. An audience.
    4. A whole lot of drama.

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  8. chelsea

    awwww my little kay kay <3 <3 <3 !!!

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  9. Stella

    I lost my first tooth while watching The Friendly Giant on TV and biting into a carrot. The tooth stayed in the carrot. I looked at it and thought YUK, Mom must have been chopping onions when she gave me this carrot so I plucked it out it threw in on the floor.
    When my Mom saw me later, she noticed that the tooth was gone. It didn’t take long to put 2 and 2 together. Boy did I find that tooth to put under my pillow. I think I got a quarter for it. That must have been two quarter centuries ago!
    Yikes!

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  10. Bev S.

    My teeth were taken out by a surgeon when my tonsils were taken out. I remember tucking them under my pillow at the hospital, waking up the next morning and I had a lot of change. I went to the restroom holding my money, flushed and all of the change fell into the toilet. I had a nurse get it out for me with a spoon.
    Once your niece loses her other tooth, have her say “photosynthesis.” I loved to do that with my children!

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  11. Rosemary

    I remember when I lost my first tooth. I was in kindergarten and my dad pulled it out. Then I looked in the mirror and said “can you please put it back”!

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  12. kim

    I pulled my own teeth and I loved it! Weird, huh? Also, I just returned from a California holiday and we had a blast. It was perfect. Highly recommend it to anyone.

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  13. Vickie

    when I was about that age living in a large house covered in vines in Fountainbleau, my Mother tried to get me to pull out my hanging tooth. I would not. She then tied a string to my tooth and then tied that to my shoelace. I was determined not to move an inch. !5 minutes later she came rushing in from looking out over the balcony – Vickie, a circus parade is coming down the street ! hurry come see ! there are elephants too ! needless to say, toothe forgotten, my shoe came down as I jumped up to look, pulling out my tooth in the process. once I realized her wily trick, I howled in anger and indignation! I always doubted the truthdulness of a parade coming down my street after that let me tell you !

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  14. dede

    I used to teach kindergarten and have pulled out more teeth than I can count! I always waited until the tooth was just barely hangin’ and then I would have the child tell me that they were ready, and then with one little tug, there it was! The kids would give 3 hip hip hoorays and the Brave toothless one got an ice cube in a paper towel and his/her tooth taped to a card to take home for the toothfairy. I took their pictures and had them up in the classroom to be taken home at the end of the year. It was fun.

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  15. Jill Flory

    My first tooth was pulled by the dentist. it was too stubborn to let loose on its own! and yes, I’ve pulled several teeth out of my girls mouths!!!

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  16. Ruth Shehigian

    I remember when each of my 4 kids lost their first tooth. I cried each time. I love watching them grow but I do so miss the tiny versions of them. Lucky for me, even my teenagers still tell me they love me

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  17. martina

    I can’t remember, it was so long ago, maybe the Jurassic period 🙂 However I do remember my now 14 year old dog losing her puppy teeth. There is no tooth fairy for dogs, the puppies just get toys.
    Now, the pink nailpolish looks delightful on KayKay and I do remember having the same type of manicure.
    Katie is a cutie pie.

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  18. Chris Wittmann

    I remember how horrified my parents were when I lost a SECOND tooth…and a front one too, not a baby tooth! I fell and hit my teeth, and never told my parents it was “hangin”….but at dinner it came out and everyone was horrified to think that at 11 I’d have to have a false tooth!
    The good news is, a third one grew in…amazing, eh? And I’ve had it ever since 🙂
    Your niece is adorable!

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  19. Robin Williams

    Hmmm……school teacher for thirty years, mostly in 1st grade……….teeth pulled? Too many to count!!!!!! The kids were more excited about the cute little red heart box I gave them which held the tooth! It was an inch square, and the two tabs that closed it made a stand-up heart.

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  20. Brenda L. from TN.

    Your niece is adorable! Your WHOLE family has beautiful people in it!!
    My Mother always had me chew bubble gum or bite into an apple when my teeth were lose or hangin….That’s about the only time she let me have bubble gum but I didn’t catch on until I was about 8 to what she was doing and refused to chew anymore gum. That’s when she started letting my granddad (a DDS….LONG retired)pull them….HE didn’t hurt me.

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  21. lscox@earthlink.net

    Such a pretty girl & such a cute dimple!

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  22. jend’isère

    Thanks all for ideas to begin a child’s memories. Fairies come to our house in a land where other children are visited by a little mouse. My kids grow lat,losing first teeth at 7 1/2, so I am preparing a character for my little boy. Concocting a magical mouse for his first visit.

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  23. Karen C

    I remember always worrying the tooth in question until it was not quite out and waiting til I was sitting back in class to give it the final triumphant pull which meant I could then be excused from class to ‘clean up’.
    Now I am a mother and we have an infamous family story about the evening our two eldest sons tied up the youngest one in a game of ‘hostages’ or something of the like and left him longer than expected. He decided to go and look for his brothers but because he was tied ankles and wrists he fell forward onto the corner of a small table, hitting his front tooth and forcing it back up into the gum. Ouch! We thought he had knocked it out of his mouth until it failed to turn up in the ensuing search and 2 weeks later he had it surgically removed.
    Despite the trauma at the time, it was a constant source of creative writing for each of the brothers throughout their school years.
    I am quite sure my son’s event was karma come to get me as I deliberately pushed a swing into my 2yo brother in a fit of anger one day, causing him to lose both his front teeth. And no, I’m not proud of myself.

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  24. Jenna

    She is such a beautiful child, and growing far too quickly! Sacha and Kate are eye twins.

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  25. deborah

    She is so beautiful! I love the sweetness of little kids!

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