Not describing getting my kids to do something is like pulling teeth – although it is – I’m talking about really pulling teeth.
Who is the tooth puller in your house?
I guess it’s me here.
Why can’t Pato pull their teeth? Because he works so many stinking hours that he’s never here when a tooth needs pulled. I almost told him to hold on until we saw grandpa next. Grandpa is a good and eager tooth puller. Ok, maybe not eager but he was never grossed out pulling my teeth when I begged him. He got out a t-shirt, wrapped it around the tooth and yanked away. My mom wouldn’t even wiggle teeth.
That being said, this post is not going to be for the faint of heart or those who get sick reading about/seeing blood. Skip today if that happens to you.
I’d skip it if it didn’t happen to me.
I pulled Katiana’s first tooth back in December. No big deal. Pop. It was out.
Jordan has pulled his own teeth his whole tooth losing life.
I attempted to do one for him, but it wasn’t ready.
2 weeks ago he pulled out 5 teeth in a couple of days.
I thought surely he had to be out of teeth to pull.
Nope.
I noticed the other day that he had an adult molar coming up IN FRONT of his baby molar. That tooth needed to go soon. When he came up to me and said, mom, I need you to pull my tooth, I was sure it was going to be that one. It has to be ready.
Nope, it was the canine next to it.
I gave a wiggle. It was loose. Pulled it out. It bled a little.
Next thing I know Jordan came up to me with half a molar. I just pulled half a tooth mom, the other half is stuck.
Something fell out of his mouth. Not stuck any more.
That one was bleeding all over the place.
Then he was determined to pull the above mentioned molar that I said was in no way ready to come out after I tried wiggling it. I told him if it didn’t come out soon that I would call the dentist.
Instead of taking a shower like I told him to do, he spent 20 minutes in the bathroom (with the water running to make me think he was doing what I said). He came out to me hopping up and down. Mom! Mom! Pull it! Pull it! It hurts.
He was bleeding all over the place from that tooth, but he did work it loose.
Not loose enough.
I had to put one hand on his head to give myself leverage to pull it.
It went pop, pop. 2 nails went snap, snap.
Blood EVERYWHERE.
Seriously peeps, I thought I was going to get sick, pass out, or both.
It was the pop pop snap snap that made me woozy.
He begged for orajel and ibuprofin for 2 days (Sunday and Monday). He made me clean the blood out with a Q-tip first. The things moms do for their kids. Puke, poop, blood. We do it all.
That’s 3 teeth in one night.
I said, that’s $3 from the tooth fairy.
He said, nope that’s $5.
I said what?
I pulled 2 yesterday but the tooth fairy never came.
For real Jordan? You know I AM THE TOOTH FAIRY. How am I supposed to know that she needs to visit if you don’t tell me that you lost teeth?
I was just testing her.
Come on. Work with a mama here.
That has to be the last of his teeth right? I don’t have to deal with any more blood until Katiana loses another tooth? Right? He swears he has one more to go.
I really hope he can do it on his own or that it’s just hanging by a thread and will fall out.
No more pop pop snap snap.
My cousin Skip asked me when I posted about pulling all these teeth on Facebook if they were loose or if we had cabin fever.
I can’t speak for Jordan but it was all about the loose teeth for me. At least they were loose when they got to me.
Have a great day!
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I adore her. I actually bought that shirt just to annoy Jordan because he hates Iowa State, he’s a Hawkeye fan all the way. I put it in his pile of clothes and he just about had a conniption fit when he saw it. Why would you buy this for me? Please burn it. No, it’s mine. Thank you.
