Lost

Ignacio came home from school complaining his tooth hurt. When I checked, his little tooth was so loose that I could have popped it out...but I didn't. An overwhelming rush of emotion came over me. I wasn't expecting that. No one told me how emotional it would be for your first little one to loose his first tooth. When I came home from work that night Ignacio was sleeping but Angel showed me the picture. Ignacio had bravely pulled his own tooth out. I started crying. He was different.  He looked different. I remembered the white beneath his gums and that little tooth poking through so many years ago. He had placed the tooth in his special pillow Mama Ama had gotten him years ago and sure enough in the morning a dollar had appeared. At first he thought the tooth was still there and I found him crying in his bed at 5am. He thought maybe his tooth was too heavy to be taken. My baby. When he unfolded the napkin, he found that the tooth has been taken after all.