Aunt Darcie sent us a little tooth box. It’s very cute.

A week later, Jared’s tooth is wildly loose. It felt like it could come out any second. (He looked very surprised when I told him all of his teeth were going to come out.) Daddy finally yanked it last night.

It was the same tooth position that Ethan first lost. Although, Ethan’s wasn’t quite this easy. His adult teeth started growing in behind it before it was loose at all – we called these shark teeth, like sharks’ rows upon rows of teeth. Of course, that was after I found out it wasn’t unusual for that to happen. At first I was freaking out.

Anyway, Ethan’s tooth required an extraction by the dentist.

The same thing happened with Ethan’s top front two teeth. First the row of shark teeth. Then one of the baby teeth came out, but the grey one that had gotten discolored so long ago when he fell on it wasn’t budging. The dentist told him to wiggle it and twist it as much as possible, which Ethan had not been doing thinking it “wasn’t allowed.” When this didn’t work for more than 8 weeks, we were about to take him back to the dentist. He finally tripped and fell on his face and saved us a visit. (Do not tease him about this; he is very sensitive about it. ??)

So back to Jared. Wildly loose, for 3 days I thought it would come out at any moment. And I was giving him ibuprofen because it was hurting him. But I didn’t pull it too hard because it hurt him. Daddy wasn’t really worried about that. YANK! WaaaaAAAIIILLLL! And it was still there! But came out a few minutes later.