Out with the old....in with the new

For the past couple of months, Carter has been on a "quest" to lose his first tooth. It seems that everyone around him, including both of his brothers have lost teeth and had visits from the "tooth fairy!" Carter will turn 8 in September, be in 2nd grade and is dying to lose a tooth. Well, on a visit to the dentist last December, he told Carter that his teeth were in there pretty solid and it may be ANOTHER year before they came out. Now, I wasn't too surprised that Carter has hung on to his teeth this long. He didn't cut his first tooth until right before his first birthday. On top of that, he cut the top two teeth first, not the customary bottom two. Well, every night for the past week, Carter has wiggled and wiggled and yanked and yanked that tooth. Last night it finally popped out! He was so thrilled. Of course, he said the tooth fairy needed to bring him "five bucks!" Ha! He was lucky the tooth fairy could scrounge up a couple of "golden dollars" (the new one dollar coins). Whew! Crisis overted.
Here's Carter's new look! The other one is loose too, so I am sure it won't be long before it follows. He is one happy boy. Thank heavens he still has two and a half days of school left to show all of his friends.
This is Tanner's new look. He too, was missing his two front teeth. Around February he bonked his mouth on the trampoline. I didn't think much about it, but the tooth died and an abscess formed. Long story short, we had to pull the front two teeth. But, now, with the help of some "cosmetic dentistry" he has some new front teeth. He is so thrilled about them, he has been showing everyone. Hopefully they will help with his speech also.

Our last tooth story comes from Parker. He has been in braces for the last 18 months. We have been waiting and waiting and waiting for him to lose a few teeth and have some new ones grow in. But, this process has been agonizingly slow and at his cleaning appointment, the dentist "suggested" maybe we help those along. So a few weeks ago, Parker enjoyed his first experience with "laughing gas" and had SIX teeth pulled. Essentially, they were all shells and the gums were hanging on for dear life. One tooth had a bracket on it and there was more bracket than tooth! We have actually seen a couple of teeth pop through now that the others are out of the way.

Needless to say....we have been keeping food on our dentist's table! Hopefully we are done for awhile.