Update on Gevin

OK, I do want to mention how it all went down with Gev and his baby teeth. I kept reminding him everyday to wiggle his teeth and he did make a little progress but the teeth were not loose enough. So I had to take action. Two days before the two week "deadline" I asked Gevin if I could feel how wiggly his teeth were and that's when I pushed down on one of them. Out came a "pop" sound and surprised Gevin's little cry. That made the tooth loose enough that it laied horizontally. That created excitement among us all. Of course, Daddy had to see it. And that's when the operation began. First came the direction: Give me some floss. Then a couple of unsuccessful tries of tying it on. After it was tied on I was selected to tug on it and on the count of three ........it slipped off. Greg wanted to use the end of the plastic flosser to push the front of the gums down and loosen the tooth that way. Gevin was getting pretty frustrated at that point. I remembered when I was little, my dad would pull my teeth using a handkerchief in hand and it was over in a jiffy. So I fetched me a handkerchief and grabbed onto the tooth and twisted it. I didn't pull the tooth out, but it was loose enough that when Gevin reached in, he could pull it out himself. Yeeeeeey! What an awesome feeling!!! He was so excited to have his very first baby tooth out, that he forgot all about the blood and pain. I thought, what a brave little boy.

We asked him, if he wanted to do the same with the second tooth, but since he had two more days he wanted to wait and work on that one some more himself. As expected the tooth was still in his mouth two days later. So it was either me calling the dentist or me pulling it out. To my surprise, Gevin trusted me and decided he would have me pull it. Boy, was I nervous that time. I thought that one would be much harder to pull because it was in tighter that the first. So I took my trusty hanky and wanted to push down on the tooth first like I did last time. When I did, out came the tooth flying, landing on my head. We weren't sure where it landed so we searched for it until a bent my head down and it fell onto the floor. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!!! What a relief! I must say that Katlynn proofed to be quite a helper. She brought Gevin his three Teddy bears for him to hold and offered that he could squeeze her hand... and that he did. Katlynn was his moral support, too. She was the experienced one in loosing teeth, so she new all about it and was assuring him that it didn't hurt.

Now, we'll see if the new two teeth will situate themselfs where they need to be.
Hopefully the next new teeth will grow where they should right from the start and help the baby teeth to fall out on their own, because we don't want to repeat this a n y more :)