Jake's First Loose Tooth

This week we noticed that Jacob's incoming tooth was barely poking up directly behind his loose tooth. Yesterday I saw it again and it had come through and up quite a bit. Well, daddy found out and said he would pull it out for him. That freaked out Jacob. I am a little worried about his tooth coming in crooked so I told Jacob I would give him five bucks if he let daddy pull his tooth right now. That immediately got Jakes attention and for the next half hour daddy worked on it. First with a washcloth and pulling. Didn't work. So he had Jacob go get one of the handheld flossers to floss your teeth with. So John eventually got the flosser underneath the tooth and yanked. He pulled so hard it flipped the tooth out and it landed up on his top teeth and stuck there. So John grabbed it and showed it to Jacob. Jake was stunned or transfixed for about 15 seconds and didn't even move. John had to tell him about 4 times to swallow his blood so it wouldn't drip out of his mouth. I got a picture of the stunned look of him just laying there. He is one happy boy now that the shock has worn off AND he got his five bucks. I can't believe I gave him five dollars, but hey, it worked, and I don't have to worry about it anymore.



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So he put his tooth in a plastic bag and put it under his pillow and went right to bed. He came to me this morning and was shaking the bag that had four quarters in it. He was so happy. He told me that he didn't sleep last night. He just closed his eyes and waited for the tooth fairy. He thought maybe the tooth fairy might be a boy or it might be a girl. I asked him what he thought it was. He said he thought it was a girl. And he goes, "But she must be really small because I didn't feel her climbing under my pillow to give me the money and I didn’t get any sleep last night."