Friday, July 9, 2010

Letting Go

We are going on three months now of two extremely wiggly two front teeth. The permanent ones are coming in and pushing them all crazy (some days that one in the front is poking almost straight out of her mouth), but they will just not let go!

She goes nuts if I try to touch or wiggle them and whenever any family members point out that her teeth are still there she gets all offended. We've made a compromise - if she will wiggle them by herself every night before bed I won't try to wiggle them for her. So every night before bed she lays there wiggling them (barely - a weak wiggle) for a minute.

I'm really not obsessed with teeth, but I'm worried that they'll affect how the permanent ones grow in if they don't get out of the way soon.

Three months!! I wonder what the record is for how long a loose tooth can hang in there...

7 comments:

Stacy said...

Tell her if she doesn't wiggle them out by monday then I am coming with my pliers to pull them out! See if that helps!

jodi kay said...

HaHa! That's crazy! I can't believe she can eat with those. What I really can't believe is that Nikolas hasn't accidently knocked them out when he's been over there. I've seen some kids with their new teeth growing in and they still haven't lost their old teeth. They pretty much look like sharks.

aubrey said...

Oh goodness! That is one nice snaggle tooth she's got there! "accidentally" trip her tomorrow, that should knock the darn thing out!

Trevlyn said...

What's keeping it in!? That is hilarious!

the landreths said...

Caden had a front tooth like that! It wasn't even wiggly anymore becaue the tooth growing in was making it stiff and sticking straight out. He was nervous for me to pull it, but one day i talked him into just letting me put a string around it. I didn't even have to pull it. When i tightened the string it just fell out. He said "that's it?". Easy as pie. You should do it in her sleep. She probably wouldn't feel a thing!

Shelly and Ken said...

That is crazy! I think you might be going for a record. We have the opposite problem. As soon as a tooth is remotely wiggly, Kailyn has it out by nightfall. The other day she said she thought her permanent tooth was lose. I had to stop her from trying to wiggle it out.

Bown Fam said...

I had a baby tooth until I was 25. No I am not lying. I was born with out 4 permanent teeth, so the baby teeth never get pushed out. So let her know that she doesn't want to look funny with those teeth hanging out 'til she's 25. Just leave out the part where I didn't have any permanent teeth.