Michele’s Musings

So you know those baby teeth that are loose FOREVER?  The ones that just keep hanging in there for months while the adult tooth grows in behind it….  It’s really wiggly but it just won’t fall out…. You and the dentist tell your child to wiggle it and get it out but they say “it HURTS I can’t wiggle it” and they complain that they can’t brush their teeth or eat apples because it HURTS! 

Do you ever get sneaky????

Rowan had one of those teeth… until last night anyway when the Tooth Goblin paid a visit

He fell asleep on the couch after refusing to let me have a look at his tooth all evening, so I thought I’d take a peak… I pulled down his bottom lip and gave it a little wiggle, he didn’t flinch…. so I did it again… he kept sleeping… I gave it a harder wiggle and realized if I just worked at it a bit it would come out, and since he wasn’t noticing anything I was doing I kept at it.  After a minute or so of wiggling on and off I felt it give way and there was a little bit of blood, so I wiggled a bit more and it popped out!  He closed his mouth right quick and I thought “oh no he’s going to swallow it!”  But then he made a face and spit it out!  He didn’t even wake up!

So this morning I said to him “notice anything different about your mouth?” and he looked at me a bit confused…. then he felt his teeth with his tongue and got a surprised look on his face, cocked his head to the side and said “my tooth is gone!”  So I told him what I did, he laughed and thought it was funny and then I showed him his little tooth, he went around showing it to everyone all proud. The only other tooth he lost he must have swallowed because we never found it, so he thought it was cool to check it out.

Just call me Mom AKA the Tooth Goblin