Sunday, November 23, 2008

First Lost Tooth

Tyler Lost His First Tooth!

I was a little surprised when Tyler complained that his tooth was "clicking." It turned out that the clicking was his loose tooth shifting positions and rubbing against his top teeth when he bit down. I waited to pull until Tyler didn't complain about it hurting when it wiggled. I used my dad's trick of using dental floss to tie a slip not around the tooth, counted to 3, and pulled both ends of the dental floss tight. Tyler was very brave, and excited when he woke up the next morning to find 50 cents from the Tooth Fairy. It's kind of funny when he smiles, because the gap from his missing tooth almost lines up with the gap between his to front teeth.



4 comments:

leethie said...

So cute! Way to be brave, Tyler! I love your smile!:)

Shirley Morris said...

What a nice dad not to use dad's other technique of tying it to the door knob!

Terry and Amber Andrews said...

Congrats on the first tooth gone. It sounds like it went well. Tyler looks really cute in his picture.

Missy said...

WOW! You're growing up Tyler!!!