My dear sweet Lilly, why is losing a tooth such a hard thing for you?
We have been trying to get this tooth out for weeks. Seriously. Weeks. Wiggling is not allowed, pulling is not even an option. Trying to get in that mouth is next to impossible. It might as well be a bank vault for all the access we are allowed. For some reason, teeth do not leave her head. Tonight, we decided that since the other tooth had grown in completely behind the loose one, it had to come out. The new big tooth wasn't able to be brushed properly, and was getting crowded out, and really, I don't want to even think about braces, so...
It lasted about an hour. Wiggling, crying, not letting us wiggle, letting us wiggle but just a little, the dental floss trick which she changed her mind about at the last minute, and then a moment of brilliance from Will. Lilly is so afraid that something might hurt, that her rational self checks out and she becomes completely, totally, irrational and unreasonable. We have to talk her through it and push her a little farther than she likes to go, but it becomes necessary. Will decided to just tell her that he was going to use the flosser (the plastic thing with the floss attached) to "clean" around the edges. This tooth was so loose that we could actually see the bottom of the tooth where the hole is. He was able to just put the edge of the flosser under it and push it up and out. He caught it and palmed it. She didn't even know it came out. He told her to push her tooth one more time with her tongue and then we would be done. She pushed on the spot where the tooth had been (the place where there was only the big tooth now) and said that she didn't feel it, just as Will dropped the tooth into the bowl she was holding under her chin. She immediately stopped freaking out, and was amazed that that's all there is to getting a tooth out. Thank You to my dear, sweet, genius of husband who with some trickery and sweetness got us through Lilly's second loose tooth. She is all tucked in bed and waiting for the Tooth Fairy to bring her a surprise.
4 comments:
Sounds like she deserves some nice compensation from the tooth fairy!
Yes, I think the tooth fairy left her five dollars and a note telling her how proud she was that she finally got it out, and then she thanked Lilly for the tooth. I personally don't know how the tooth fairy is going to keep up that kind of funding with three girls in the house. She may have to take on a part time job!
Lilly has a great imagination if the anticipation of the event was worse than the actual event. I know just where she's coming from as I used to do the very same thing. Thank goodness husbands are so creative though and know how to work their way around imaginary roadblocks.
At $5 a tooth, you are looking at $300 over the next 7-8 years.
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