After much anxiety about the tooth-fairy taking her tooth…..and drama about the bleeding having to go to school with a gap in her mouth….Emma has lost her FIRST TOOTH!!!   Emma wrote a little note to the tooth fairy requesting that she NOT take the tooth.  She explained, “because is it very special to me.”  It really struck me that losing a first tooth is truly a rite of passage for a child.  I am curious about Emma’s strong need to keep the tooth — most of her friends really don’t care, as long as they get some money for it.  Nonetheless, today was a big day at our house!  (oh, and the tooth fairy left Emma a nice note as well as a silver dollar dated 2001, the year she was born)