We were just talking about losing teeth when we were kids and I thought of how strange it all seems and even kind of gross!
I was one to wait past the point to where my teeth were hanging by a thread of gum tissue before I'd even consider twisting it out. My dad was always worried I'd choke on it if it came out in my sleep that we had many wrestling matches on the ground with him trying to pull them out! One night he and Tony (my big brother) came in my room while I was asleep and my dad flicked my tooth out! I woke up hearing them whispering "where did it go?" and "I think she swallowed it" only to find it days later across the room in my doll's crib. Cecile would actually come to dad to have him yank it out, simple as that. She told mom how sometimes the tooth fairy wouldn't come for days out of sheer forgetfulness and she'd have to remind mom and dad that the "tooth fairy" still had not gotten her tooth! She just wanted that money!
Have any of you done the old-fashioned tie-to-a-doorknob way of pulling out teeth? Got any fun tooth stories?
Fun fact...Mark and I have NEVER pulled a tooth from the mouths of our babes. We are BOTH too squimish. Took them to the dentist...every time. Go figure!!!
Our doors weren't heavy enough...they'd bounce back. I always twisted them around. I got my front leftie stuck backwards for a day. It freaked me out. The whole concept of teeth pulling/twisting is giving me chills...how did we do that?
I am also way too squimish. I've watched (at a distance) Mark wiggle three teeth so far. I won't go near it. I lost most of mine in an apple or corn on the cob. The string tied to the door knob completely freaks me out. Either apples & corn on the cob will be on the menu or George will have this responsibility...
That's hilarious about your dad flicking your tooth out...I never tied my tooth to the door. I lost my first tooth on vacation one year. It was seriously hanging by a thread and I wouldn't pull it out or let anyone touch it. Then one morning when I was eating breakfast my parents noticed it was gone. They looked all through my cereal bowl but we never found it. Im pretty sure I ate it. After that I loved pulling my teeth out. I usually just tried to twist them around.
I LOVED twisting and twisting my teeth out! Right now we're just trying to get through the teething thing...will have fun when we get to have tooth fairy visits!
My uncle (Stephanie's dad) was the BEST at pulling out teeth. He's really not the most emotional guy out there so it was no big deal if he got some tissue and just yanked. Came right out every time! Never had to look at an apple in a different way ever again!!
My dad would pull them out before they were totally loose, he'd use plyers and occasionally I would tie it to a door and pull it out myself...I was not squeamish child to say the least.
I always enjoyed playing with my loss teeth with my tongue. Just pushing it in and out of the socket thingy and then pushing it back in... You could call me an odd kid. I loved messing with them.
I would chew on my baby blanket until it got REALLY loose. Then, I would wait for my dad to get home and he would pull it out using a papertowel. My dad is the MAN!! I have always loved teeth. I used to save them. The tooth fairy would come to leave Dentyne and a dollar and would fine a note with my tooth. I used to write her letters begging her to leave my tooth so I could study it. I kept my teeth forever! They were soo cool. I wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in 3rd grade until I was a junior in high school. I still love teeth and going to the dentist. If this professorial thing doesn't work out, I plan to go back to school to become a dental hygenist. Woo-Hoo!!
The idea of chewing on a blanket or paper towel or a washcloth in my mouth gives me the chills! YIKES! I can't even handle it when they stick gauze in my mouth at the dentist! I didn't always go to dad to pull out my teeth, just once in a while when he'd convince me or I was tired of messing with it. I remember once he used tweezers (the kind that look like scissors and can lock together). I never liked loose teeth...it's kind of gross...the feeling of loose teeth and the weird way my gums would feel after they were out.
I tied a string around one of my sister, Suzanne's, teeth and slammed the door. A tooth came out, but I had tied the string around the wrong tooth! We were way too young to be doctoring ourselves, but she needed the money!
For some strange reason, my teeth became loose during class. If I pulled that tooth out, I got to leave the classroom (I was bored alot), walk around the halls, get sympathy from the powers-that-be, and usually get some kind of treat. It was a rewarding activity for a shy kid who started in the "dummy" reading group and worked her way up through the system!
My most remembered tooth extraction stories would have to be of Rebecca. She made me a nervous wreck over loose teeth. I believe I had to pull 3 of them out on our trip to DC one summer. I never could understand why she wouldn't just pull them out herself. I always toyed with mine until I got them out. She would never touch a loose tooth or let anybody else touch it, until she would have me try to get them out. I used a washcloth because I could get a better grip on them. Thankfully, all of hers are out now. Praise God! And I don't mean that flippently(sp) at all!!!!
Yesterday was a perfect, breezy, sunny day for a graduation. Thanks to everyone who supported me along the way and for all the congrats!
This song was sung at graduation:
Hayley Westenra
"Never Saw Blue"
Today we took a walk up the street,
We picked a flower and climbed a hill above the lake
Secret thoughts, u said aloud,
We watched the faces in the clouds
Until the clouds have blown away
Were we ever somewhere else u know
It's hard to say
I never saw a blue like that before
Across the sky, around the world
You're giving me all u have and more
No one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now, oh I
I never saw a blue like that
I can't believe
A month ago I was alone
I didn't know u, I've never seen you, or heard your name
And even now, I'm so amazed it's like a dream
It's like a rainbow, it's like the rain
Some things are the way they are and words just can't explain
I never saw a blue like that before
Across the sky, around the world
You're giving me all u have and more
No one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now, oh I
I never saw a blue like that before
It feels like now, it feels always,
And it feels like coming home
I never saw a blue like that before
Across the sky, around the world
You're giving me all u have and more
No one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now, oh I
I never saw a blue like that before
i've always liked that song. wait, did sarah sing that???? sorry we missed it but i didn't think little man would make it that long outside. i'm so happy for you and proud of you! welcome to the massage therapy club at glen springs!
So excited for you!! This is the beginning of a fun new career, $$, giving complimetary massages to your favorite friends (HINT)...Hey, I should bring you some chips and salsa to celebrate! :)
"I don't think the way you think.
The way you work isn't the way I work."
God's Decree.
"For as the sky soars high above earth,
so the way I work surpasses the way you work,
and the way I think is beyond the way you think.
Just as rain and snow descend from the skies
and don't go back until they've watered the earth,
Doing their work of making things grow and blossom,
producing seed for farmers and food for the hungry,
So will the words that come out of my mouth
not come back empty-handed.
They'll do the work I sent them to do,
they'll complete the assignment I gave them.
I like the verse...God always works it out for us-sometimes in ways we would never imagine, and sometimes gives us answers that are very clear but maybe hard to accept. We can always know it's the best answer, though! :)
WOOHOO!!! I'm so proud of you!!! May you have a beautiful day for the ceremony, surrounded by those who love you. I won't be there, but know that I love you and am excited for you and your vision!
Tomorrow is my wonderful hubby's birthday. I sent him a package that he should get by tomorrow or the next day and I almost taped myself in and mailed myself to Iraq. That would be an original present, wouldn't it!?
I graduate from massage school in 21 days...it flew by but I have been enjoying every minute of it. Over 655 hours of hands-on massage practice and that's only the beginning. I pray that God keeps my hands (my career/money making tools) in good shape, no- I really mean great shape.
:)
Congrats on finishing school, that's awesome. Are you able to talk to your husband at all? When Ryan (my brother) was over sea's he got to call every once in awhile on a satelite phone, it was pretty neat:)
Do you have a job lined up yet? Everybody at work tells me that I should do that for a living, but I don't think I could do it all day long. The dr. told me I have a lot of arthritis in my hands, but thankfully I hardly notice it.
I don't know how to post a pic on pleonast. Need to learn how. Glad to email one. We will figure out a way to be there. Congrats in advance to you. FSM changed my life and enriched me so much.
