So here is the story of Madison's first lost tooth.
This Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning we were in SC for a family wedding. Friday night we had the rehearsal dinner and we all had a great time including Madison who especially enjoyed eating some cake with her icing.
So we got home late from the rehearsal and let Madison play around a little bit she was not at all interested in getting ready for bed and had a million extra excuses of why she wasn't ready to brush her teeth. But we got her in her jammies and had her on the stool brushing her teeth and she decided to just step off the stool and she banged her mouth on the vanity counter. She had a lot of blood in her mouth way more than if she had just bit her lip and as I am check it all out I see that her tooth is gone. I immediately think oh no did she swallow it, did it go down the sink. My mother in law sees in on the floor and I immediately so into we have to get this tooth back in mode. I assign my father in law to search the internet for some resolution because I know I am suppose to put the tooth in something but I can't recall what. Grammy is playing with Madison who now thinks yeah more time to play. I tell Chris to get dress because we may be off to the ER and I proceed to dump my wallet and search of any number I may have that might be useful. I call all kinds of numbers with no luck I even called 911 because I couldn't find a hospital number in the Lexington phone book. 911 gave me some dental emergency numbers but they didn't answer. Finally I thought about a friend of my moms I had bet this summer while getting ready for my sister's wedding and I called my mom who was at a retreat and and then called my Dad to get the numbers from the church directory after I knew her name. She was very helpful. In her own way she pointed out that Madison was find she was still going to be beautiful and that reimplanting the tooth would really only be painful for Madison. So after some hysterical crying and sobbing I excepted the fact that Madison had lost her first tooth. After I got off the phone Madison came over to me and said in the sweetest voice with the saddest little face, "Mommy don't be sad, I'm sorry I broke my tooth." With her little mouth all banged up and still a little bloody she gave me a big hug and told me she loved me. Of course I told her how much I loved her too. So we put her in bed and everyone dispersed but I still had this depressing weight on my heart, yes Madison was fine she wasn't maimed or really injured but her sweet smile just wasn't the same. I cleaned myself up for bed and Chris and I went back into the room. (We were all sleeping in the same room and later in the night all in the same bed.) That night I tossed and turned. I could not sleep, I even got out the digital camera and found myself staring at little pictures of my sweet baby before she lost her tooth. This was all around 11:30 when we went to bed. Around 4 am I found myself still awake and heard Madison knocking her head against the wall so I fixed her once and then just put her in bed with us. Having her next to me helped me feel a little better and I was able to get a few hours of sleep in between hearing Chris snoring. That next day Madison's mouth was a little bloody but she was fine and I was able to cope and move on a little. We had the wedding that night and Madison had an absolute blast at the wedding party. She was the "dancing queen."
At the reception someone mentioned the tooth fairy and I thought, crap what kind of mother am I my child gets her tooth knocked out and the tooth fairy doesn't even come for a visit so we had to make up for that. Mommy and Daddy gave her $5 and Grammy and Granpa gave her $10. 
She was so excited and that morning we let her buy something with her money in the toy section of Cracker Barrel. She bought her very own "macrowave" because she had previously informed me that her play kitchen didn't have a microwave. During our drive home she kept asking to play with it so once we got home Chris opened the package and off she went preparing all kinds of microwave delicacies for Mommy and Tinkerbell while Daddy was out picking up some dinner we could actually eat.
This morning the dentist's office called as soon as they opened to get Madison in and they checked her out. She did great with the x-ray and exam. The dentist even asked, "How old is she." She got some stickers for being such a good girl and Mommy took her to McDonald's for lunch and some play time on the slides. The dentist said the trauma was as good as could be asked for the "break" from the bone did minimal damage and it will remottle itself in a few months. We will take her back in after her birthday for her first full check up and cleaning and then I am probably going to let them give her a little bridge. He said it is nothing like an adults and it is purely cosmetic but it will make me feel better about her not having a giant space in her mouth until she is 6 and loosing her other baby teeth. She won't have to be asleep and they will just use a little bonding agent, dental wire and a few ortho bands. So I am going to task myself to ditching the paci so that she will get use to not sucking and hopefully not knock out the bridge.
Here she is reading Dora goes to the dentist.
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