When Wiggling Doesn't Work

We've made it through . . . dozens, hundreds, thousands? . . . of teeth so far, and yet this front top baby tooth proved beyond our abilities of extraction. A weird blood blister on his gum clued us in to the distress the grown tooth might be facing, and that was three months ago. He wanted to wiggle it; the dentist said she'd rather we pull it out than her, so we waited. But at our cleanings she noticed that little bitty was still in place. B had a filling that went missing (sure hope it's not chilling in his digestive system somewhere), so we booked a double appointment for our lads--one fill, one pull.

Since it was still a school week and we are a mobile schooling unit, the kids filled their 1.5 hours of dental waiting by schooling it up! I'm glad that people are generally very encouraging of home schooling. I've never really faced (at least TO my face) a lot of the garbage that early home schooling families had to face (the pioneers, as I call them, and I'm not talking early America!). We get to enjoy the benefit of all their hard years softening public opinion about parents educating their own kiddos. I dig it!

Anyway . . . G decided since he'd never had a tooth pulled professionally, he wanted me to sit with him through the process. He also knew he would be getting laughing gas . . . so he made sure to laugh . . . A LOT :) I was a little nervous, because my children have never needed nitrous (that's what it is right?) before, and though I did some reading up on it on the web, I wanted to see how he would react in person. Glad he picked me for his adventure :)

That little tooth proved very stubborn, but eventually it did wiggle out with the help of several cleverly-crafted tools. He chose to keep it, and wrote me--I mean the tooth fairy--the cutest note! I should post a picture of that . . .  he didn't expect any cash, since we had to pay to get this one removed, but he was very brave, and silly, and we can afford the extra buck ;) He was pretty happy about that dollar the next morning . . . it's been a profitable week for him, lol!