25 Days Later...
...and Lil' Miss has finally lost her FIRST tooth!!!!
She nearly lost it yesterday while eating, when twice she bit onto it and it began bleeding. It was so loose you could literally move it into a horizontal position. But she was NOT having any part of letting us pull it out for her. She babied that tooth out of absolute fear. She would barely touch the pizza slice that had been cut into itty bitty pieces for her today.
So we put on our best "salesman" faces and tried to convince her of the need for it to come out.
"You don't want it to come out at school tomorrow, where you might lose it, do you?"
"Do you want it to fall out when you're eating and possibly swallow it?"
"It's already bleeding and that blood could cause an infection and then you'd get sick."
Yeah, so maybe the scaring-the-crap-out-of-her tactic wasn't working. Bribery?
"If we can get it out now, then you'll get a visit from the Tooth Fairy TONGIHT, plus then we can go see Harry Potter at the theatre and you can eat whatever you want!"
"OK."
Note to those of you who have yet to go thru this: waxed dental floss is a bad idea. It slips off very easily. And if you aren't very good at tying little knots, you may want to enlist some help. We finally went with plain old sewing thread. However, trying to get that sucker around that baby tooth WAS NOT easy. It took two of us, and a pair of needle nose tweezers to hook that loop onto the back of her tooth.
Then we switched on the video camera, sat down on the edge of our bed, she shut her eyes tight while squeezing my hand and said, "OK." Daddy yanked the string quickly.
We didn't see the tooth come out, but we heard it. That little booger went flying across the room and smacked right into one of the pictures on the wall!!! OHMYGOD, we lost it!!! Lil' Miss opened her eyes and said, "did you get it?", oblivious to our sudden panic. "Yeah, it hit the wall." She felt the now empty space in her mouth and starting laughing. It hadn't even hurt one little bit! Luckily we quickly found the tooth on the bed, showed it to her then had her go rinse with salt water. YUCK!
Well we made it to one of the few theatres still showing Harry Potter, and Lil' Miss ate and ate and ate, until we thought she was gonna bust!! My poor baby, must've been awfully hungry the past couple of days.
And now she can't stop playing with the new space in her mouth.
I bet the next tooth "falls" out much quicker!
She nearly lost it yesterday while eating, when twice she bit onto it and it began bleeding. It was so loose you could literally move it into a horizontal position. But she was NOT having any part of letting us pull it out for her. She babied that tooth out of absolute fear. She would barely touch the pizza slice that had been cut into itty bitty pieces for her today.
So we put on our best "salesman" faces and tried to convince her of the need for it to come out.
"You don't want it to come out at school tomorrow, where you might lose it, do you?"
"Do you want it to fall out when you're eating and possibly swallow it?"
"It's already bleeding and that blood could cause an infection and then you'd get sick."
Yeah, so maybe the scaring-the-crap-out-of-her tactic wasn't working. Bribery?
"If we can get it out now, then you'll get a visit from the Tooth Fairy TONGIHT, plus then we can go see Harry Potter at the theatre and you can eat whatever you want!"
"OK."
Note to those of you who have yet to go thru this: waxed dental floss is a bad idea. It slips off very easily. And if you aren't very good at tying little knots, you may want to enlist some help. We finally went with plain old sewing thread. However, trying to get that sucker around that baby tooth WAS NOT easy. It took two of us, and a pair of needle nose tweezers to hook that loop onto the back of her tooth.
Then we switched on the video camera, sat down on the edge of our bed, she shut her eyes tight while squeezing my hand and said, "OK." Daddy yanked the string quickly.
We didn't see the tooth come out, but we heard it. That little booger went flying across the room and smacked right into one of the pictures on the wall!!! OHMYGOD, we lost it!!! Lil' Miss opened her eyes and said, "did you get it?", oblivious to our sudden panic. "Yeah, it hit the wall." She felt the now empty space in her mouth and starting laughing. It hadn't even hurt one little bit! Luckily we quickly found the tooth on the bed, showed it to her then had her go rinse with salt water. YUCK!
Well we made it to one of the few theatres still showing Harry Potter, and Lil' Miss ate and ate and ate, until we thought she was gonna bust!! My poor baby, must've been awfully hungry the past couple of days.
And now she can't stop playing with the new space in her mouth.
I bet the next tooth "falls" out much quicker!
posted by Zette at 8:00 PM
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