Today I had the pleasure of pulling out one of Maya’s front teeth. Correction … it was her only front tooth. She lost her other one a couple days ago. This poor tooth was hanging by a thread. So I did what anyone would do. I offered her an apple. She took me up on the offer, but she made me cut it in small pieces for her.

Bruce found a YouTube video with a variety of inventive ways one could have their front tooth removed, all of which involved a piece of string. One had the other end tied to a rocket that blasted up. A dad tied the other end to a ball and when the girl threw the ball the tooth went with it. A sibling rode a bike away holding the piece of string – tooth gone! Another tied the string to a ball and hit the ball with a bat. One kid pulled his own tooth out by shooting a Nurf arrow with the string attached. The amazing thing about all these “tricks” is that none of the kids cried. In fact, all of them were willing participants and were ecstatic, jumping for joy when they realized their trick worked.

Not surprising, Maya wasn’t going for any of those ideas. It took me two hours to convince her it was time for the tooth to come out and that I was the right person to do it. She was ready, then she wasn’t, then she was ready, then she wasn’t. This went on, as I said, for two hours.

It wasn’t very creative, but the time came when Maya opened her mouth, let me put my fingers in there and I yanked that puppy right out of there!

Oh happy day!

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