Just in time for pictures

For the last while Sam's had a few loose teeth. Problem is that they really have not gotten any looser (more loose, less, or lost. boxes, boxen, moose meecen). Every once in a while we'd point out to Sam that he needed to wiggle his teeth if he wanted them to come out. We'd try to keep him motivated, but he would loose interested in wiggling and we'd remind him again later. Sam being the kid that was nearly in tears 2 years ago when all his friends were loosing teeth and he was not, you'd think he'd want to get them out. I guess he's no sucker for peer pressure.

(This is Sam attempting to make his teeth loose. He tried to tie the floss to the door and it wasn't staying tied. So i told him I'd hold the strings and he could just fall back. He laughed more than anything. He was having too much fun.)We might have the genetics stacked against the boys to having healthy teeth, but the root system is amazing. I was in 3rd grade when i finally lost my front top teeth. And Ethan was the same way. So tomorrow is picture day for the boys and Sam (being in 3rd grade) had been working more on his teeth over the last week and they were getting pretty loose, but still not out. Tonight i put the boys in bed, a little earlier since they got to bed later last night, as i left their room Ethan said his tongue felt weird and Sam said something about wishing he would have gotten his teeth pulled. I said just go to sleep both of you we're all tired and we need the sleep. As per usual, Sam was up and out of bed about 15 minutes after i closed the door. When i got upstairs he said his tooth was bleeding, and it was. (Timing is everything for a kid right?) And it was not too much more work to get the tooth out. As he was working on getting the tooth pulled, Ethan came walking into the hall with a tooth in his hand. He had pulled one of his molars. Well that just motivated Sam to get his tooth out faster and sure enough it was out within a few minutes.Poor Ryan. He was so wanting to add to the fun of the evening, and he kept trying to tell me "Mom, MOm, MOOM, look my tooth here, see, it's uh, it's uh, it's flat." I said yep, it sure is lets keep it safe right there for now. Ok. He said ok.

Well with Sam's one front tooth gone and the other one loose and not being held back because of the first one, Sam was determined to get it out as well. At one point Sam said "I wish my hands were bricks so i could just whack my tooth out." It took another 20 minutes of old fashion pushing and pulling, since he didn't have hands that were bricks. And out it came. Funny kid. And i thought he was hard to motivate.