Arya Loses Her First Tooth!!

Tonight Arya lost her first tooth!! The day after her 6th birthday (1 week and 1 day ago), she noticed that her front bottom tooth (on her right) was starting to get loose. She's been wiggling it all week, and a couple of times throughout the week she has bitten into something and forgotten about her loose tooth - making it more and more loose. Tonight I could tell that it was about to come out. Arya was so excited!! (Meanwhile, I have felt a little sad that my baby girl is old enough to be losing her baby teeth!!)

Tonight we had to make a trip to the Indian grocery store in Indianapolis to pick up supplies for the restaurant, so we decided it would be fun to go for a walk along the canal. We were hoping to get to go for a pedal boat ride, but ended up arriving 14 minutes after their cutoff time of 6:00p.m. (Unfortunately, they wouldn't let us take a boat out even though they were still open until 7:00p.m.!) Arya was so disappointed. She couldn't understand why all of the other people were still out boating but we were not able to boat! :(

We still had fun at the canal. The kids loved seeing the fountains and the big goldfish, and blowing the fluffy dandelion seeds that they found. They also loved yelling "ECHO!!" and listening to the echoing sounds whenever we went under a bridge.

After our visit to the canal we headed to the Indian grocery store and Arya and Alex found some guava candy (like the kind Hama had brought them from Toronto). We bought it and went to the car to wait for Rajeev to finish picking up supplies. The kids both had a piece of the hard candy and before they had finished it, Arya's tooth just popped right out! She couldn't believe that it was so easy. It didn't hurt, didn't bleed and was not traumatic at all! She was so thrilled that she even begged us to tell the guy working the drive-thru at Wendy's (where we picked up dinner) that she had just lost her first tooth! So cute! :)

It was a busy evening and Arya and Alex were both asleep in the car by the time we got home around 9:30p.m. I guess we'll have to wait until tomorrow night to leave the tooth for the tooth fairy since Arya didn't get to put it under her pillow. I am sure that the tooth fairy will understand!! :)