You want the TOOTH? You Can't Handle the TOOTH!...

Yes, this post is all about teeth! Jack is a little more sensitive than Thatcher, so I'm limited in my picture taking with him. So, I was not able to document the following story in pictures. You'll just have to close your eyes and mentally view this experience!! However, you have to keep your eyes open to read it.....

Jack has had a stubborn loose tooth for exactly one month! I mean REALLY loose! It's been his top left front tooth of all teeth! It had become SOOO loose that it was sticking straight out of his mouth.....truthfully, he looked like Nanny McPhee! We had been begging him daily to pull it, and he just wouldn't. He'd wiggle it here and there to apease us, but then tell us to quit talking about it! That was all well and fine until the permanent tooth began to come in. We were afraid of it leaving a major gap on his top row of teeth leaving him a bright future in gangsta rap, so we begged harder. Chris wanted to pull it so bad and couldn't understand why Jack wouldn't let HIM pull it! (The man manhandles criminals....Jack knows this)

I FINALLY broke down and took him to the dentist yesterday. Jack did NOT want to go, but he's usually pretty brave when it comes to shots and such and doesn't fight it.....I said USUALLY...We promised him icecream and lunch at McD's since they have the ever exciting Star Wars bobble heads in the Happy Meals....

So, I haul in with all 3 children. Jack gets called back. We ALL go. The overly tan dentist comes in and blinds us with his overly white smile. Agrees that the tooth HAS to come out or Jack's career in gangsta rap would be inevitable. He puts the numbing gel on the tooth, then Jack jumps out of the chair and protests! I was holding Margaret and wrestling with him for 30 minutes. He's a lot stronger at 7 and harder to tackle with one arm. It didn't go. We ALL gave up.

Thatcher was the MOST disappointed because he knew ice cream was now out of the question!
Last night, we begged and pleaded with him to pull this stinkin' tooth! Chris gets him to wrap floss around it and pull. Jack is the narrator, so he has to give us the play by play of each pop and crackle....(wonder where he gets that?) The whole family sits in the bathroom with him for over an hour. He's ready to give up so he takes out the floss! Chris then says "We'll go get ice cream RIGHT NOW if you pull the tooth and McD's for lunch tomorrow!" Jack smiles and with that, the tooth falls out onto the bathroom floor! All it took was a smile?

Needless to say, at 10:40 last night we were all in our pajamas going through the drive-thru ordering hot fudge sundaes! I'm not sure who cheered louder....Jack or Thatcher! And as of noon today we now have 2 ever exciting Star Wars bobble heads to add to our Happy Meal Toy collection....

Yes, the tooth fairy visited as well....unfortunately she didn't leave enough to cover the dental copay!!