At the end of May, we were dealing with Nathan's first loose top tooth. He is 9! The thing was taking an excruciatingly long time to loosen up. It tilted, then it tipped, it twisted and then started to wave at passersby. I could finally take no more and started pestering the child to get rid of that tooth. Eventually he agreed to put a piece of floss on it.
Nathan was enjoying the attention. We eventually got the floss high enough and tight enough that he HAD to get the tooth out to get the floss out.
It took him a few moments, but Nathan managed to get it out somehow and showed me his new smile. For some reason, he thought he should open his eyes really wide for the picture, too. And then after all that fighting over the darned thing, Nathan lost the tooth! Oh well, the tooth fairy was kind.
Several weeks later the other front tooth started showing signs of coming out. But it did the same lazy tricks, including doing a little dance right there in his mouth. I told him last night that today was the day; that tooth was COMING OUT!
We reminded Nathan of the experience Daniel had getting his tooth out on the 4th of July 3 years ago. It involved extreme measures. Read about it here. It must have made an impression on him because he came to me today and asked me to put some floss on it and pull it out. I almost fell over. I knew there was a good reason I liked this kid so much!
It took 3 tries, but the tooth is out. He flinched, but didn't cry. He did bleed and wipe in on my yellow hand towel - darned kid! ;) Now he looks much more respectable. He also looks 7. Slow teeth.
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