Milestone #1

Does anybody know if there is a limit on how many milestones a mother should have to endure at one time? I am really late in posting these as it was the end of August when they all occurred - just within days of one another. Let's go with the fact that it was shock. I was in shock and unavailable to share all of this... But I am ready now. I think.

Milestone #1 - August 26. We have one 6-yr-old with a very wiggly tooth. The kind that is literally hanging by a thread. The kind that you really just want to pull out but because your son is paranoid that it is going to kill him, you don't.

Well, here is a funny story. He was outside playing with all the neighbor kids - including two fifth graders. I asked the big kids to tell him what it would feel like because he was not interested in listening to his parents on the subject. They went in to this whole story about how it "hurts like a mother". (I still have not remembered to the their mothers if they know their kids are saying this and what the boys might think that it means... I should do that.) But they then told him that he was just going to have to yank it out to get it over with. They also wanted him to do the string around a doorknob trick. We talked him out of that but with all the tooth talk and his constant wiggling, it was bleeding pretty good. I went in to get him a paper towel to clean his mouth. He simply wiped his lip and...
Out it came.The big boys were so excited, they ran home to get him some rewards. David came back with a dragon pen, some water balloons, a couple of sharks teeth, and a new toothbrush.

Lukas gave him a spinner thing. (It has a special name but I can't remember what it is. They were shocked that I didn't know what they were talking about. Shame on me.)

He put his tooth in his special tooth pocket that Grandma Page made for him.

The reward? A shiny, gold dollar. I'm not sure that he understands that it is real money, but he is happy with it just the same.
And so it begins... The number that we have been counting UP for the past 6 and a half years, is now on the decline.

And now that he has been through it once, he is so ready for the rest of them to come out. I should warn the kid - he once got 4+ teeth all at once. He'd better hope they don't fall out in the same manner. Even his prized PB&J might be a little hard to eat that way.