Loose Tooth Thursday

Our cowboy inherited many wonderful traits from his parents.  One inherited trait is having crowding of the lower teeth with virtually no space to have the bigger adult teeth to move in thus, we have, as we so loving call them,

"a snaggle tooth". 

A snaggle tooth at our house is where the baby tooth isn't loose yet but the adult tooth is growing behind it.  When you look inside our little cowboy's mouth and stare at those bottom teeth you will find a jagged mess of teeth (yes, braces are in his future just like both of his parents).

As we were brushing teeth last night I told our little cowboy that we had to really work on getting that corner bottom baby tooth out so the adult tooth could move forward.  With a white foaming mouth and a muddled reply he said, "It's just not my goal yet mom, my other tooth is loose too and I want to get it out first". 

Of course he added in, "I have to be at Nonna's before I can pull them anyway".

My mom, aka Nonna to our cowboy, has always despised the ritual of tooth pulling.  I can remember as a child she would hide her eyes and tell me to just pull it and tell her when it was done.  She couldn't stand to look at the wiggling or the steps leading up to the bravery of her only child pulling out a tooth. 

I, too, have inherited her queasiness of tooth pulling.  It never bothered me to do it to myself and I guess that's because you can't see what it looks like when it's your own tooth your pushing out.  When I see my child wiggling his tooth I immediately hide my eyes and tell him to sit down by me and tell me when it's over.  Our cowboy's first tooth came out at our house and the rest have been lost at Nonna's.  He loves to terrorize Nonna with the wiggling of the loose teeth and in the process they both have become braver with the tooth pulling.

Our little cowboy finished the teeth brushing and started asking questions about the dentist and what would happen if he didn't get the tooth pulled for Sam the Snaggle tooth to move forward.  As you can see we make up names for everything at our house! 

I informed him that Elizabeth from the dental office said we may have to pull it if we didn't loosen it and get it out of there on our own.  I then went into his bedroom to turn the bed down and with a shout and a yell from the other room our cowboy had the tooth hanging by a mere thread.  

"What happened?", I asked. 

He replied, "Getting this tooth out became the goal!".

He pulled the tooth out at Mimi's today:)

When we have a goal and a deadline we move mountains and make things happen.  My daily goal is to stay on track with my eating & exercise.  I have a picture of the dress I want to purchase and the size I want to be able to buy on the front of my refrigerator.  If I have the goal in my constant sight I know I will achieve it.  If you can see it, feel it, and visualize it your goal is 50% more likely to come true!

Set you daily goals this week and visualize where you want to be!

Have a great week ~ Stephanie