finally ---- another one bites the dust!!!

and i say finally because this has been in the making for at least a month and half. gabe finally lost another tooth. this time we didn't have to go to the dentist, gabe took care of it himself!! the little tooth has been wiggling forever and in the last week, each time gabe would talk it would wiggle around. finally on saturday night, we were getting ready to head to some friends' house, and gabe looked up at me while i was combing his hair and the little tooth was crooked. i said, "gabe, you are going to have to pull that tooth out, it is just hanging there!" now i am one to talk, i don't think i ever pulled a tooth out on my own!! either the dentist, my grandma, my mom, or my grandpa (who never actually pulled a tooth, but threatened to tie me to a door knob, that was his little way of getting me to let grandma do it!) always took care of the dirty job of pulling out my teeth. i was and still am squeemish about teeth and the fact that they fall out! so i had told gabe that he was going to have to be a man and pull it himself!! a couple of wiggles later and out it came. thank goodness, now i don't have to worry about him swallowing it and wanting to find it?! you know what i mean! yuck!!!! by the way, the picture makes him look a little scared, but it was the only way i could get him to hold his mouth open so we could get a glimpse of the empty space!!