1st. Door frame. Last seen upstairs in the general vicinity of the doorway to the master bedroom. About 7 feet tall, white, and stationary. Can be extremely dangerous when near anyone not paying attention to it.
Before you wonder too much longer about what on earth I am talking about, let me explain. Last month Hailey had a run in (literally) with the two items above within the space of two days. Both times she came out on the losing end. This was the scene shortly after each "run in."
Ironically enough, both the door frame and the toy came out relatively unscathed, while she in turn lost a tooth each time.
Ironically, both were baby teeth that desperately needed to come out. We had become especially worried about one, so having it knocked out was actually a blessing. We were on the countdown to a visit to the dentist to have it pulled.
The first tooth she lost while playing around with her brothers, then running into my room without watching. She actually didn't make it through the door, instead she ran directly into the door frame. Yep, ouch. But out popped the tooth we were concerned about and after a bit of crying and bleeding, everyone was happy. We got the concerned tooth out without having to visit the dentist and Hailey had a tooth to leave for the tooth fairy that night.
Ironically, the very next day she lost another tooth. She has been into exercising lately and was asking about the proper way to do push-ups. After trying to explain over and over, Jeremiah showed her how it was done (I'm way too out of shape for that myself!). She tried over and over and couldn't understand that you didn't let your body actually touch the ground. So Jeremiah grabbed the closest small toy to place underneath her so she could practice lowering her body just enough to touch that but not touch the floor. The most readily available toy was this plastic toy boat that Tate had been playing with earlier. She somehow misunderstood that we meant the toy to be under her chest or stomach and promptly slid down so it was right under her face and tried to do a push-up. She is a little lacking in the muscle department and on her way up from the push-up, lost control and fell - her mouth crashing into the toy boat, promptly dislodging another baby tooth that has recently loosened.
Now this story gets even better. How can you imagine? Well, we had a third tooth that was loose and about to pop out - although I wonder how much of these other two experiences somehow loosened it even more. So the day after the second tooth loss, she pushed, pulled, and prodded it until it fell out. Yep, another tooth out.
Three teeth in three days.
She then looked a little crazy with 3 front teeth gone and two permanent teeth starting to come behind where the baby teeth were.
But if you ask her, it was quite the three days of excitement. Three different visits from the tooth fairy and three dollars to spend! Not much better than that!
Since then we've been a bit more careful with playing, exercising, and such. Luckily no more teeth have come out. Good thing because I think the tooth fairy was going broke!
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