toothless grin
Annie’s front teeth had been loose for a long time, but she did not like us messing them to try to loosen them more. In turn, we waited patiently for the two buggers to get to the point where they were loose enough to come out on their own. Finally, one night Mike noticed that one tooth was quite loose, and he was determined to get it out. He promised Annie the moon if she would just let him get it out. Well, the moon wasn’t exactly was promised. A hexbug nano with remote control was up for negotiation, and then Annie finalized the deal with the purchase of a new watch. After much pulling, prodding, twisting, inspecting, tying on of strings, crying, screaming, and begging for no more the tooth was finally yanked from Annie’s mouth. The next day we went and got Annie all of the items promised to her which cost nearly $40. I asked Mike if the whole experience was worth $41 (don’t forget about the tooth fairy), and he said, “ABSOLUTELY!” Truly a dentist.
The other tooth made it’s way to being so loose to the point of just hanging on by a thread, but Annie refused to let Daddy talk her into another torture experiment. I kept telling her it was going to come out any day on its own, but she wasn’t convinced. Then on our way to Legoland, Annie declared that her tooth was on backwards. I told her it would definitely be coming out any second. Annie proceeded to get herself into hysterics and insisting that it wouldn’t. Not more than a minute later Annie screamed, “My tooth came out! My tooth came out!” I think it was worth it to finally let Annie experience a tooth coming out all by itself this time.
