{"id":14468,"date":"2020-08-19T18:11:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/?p=14468"},"modified":"2020-08-19T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:11:13","slug":"all-i-want-for-christmas-is-my-two-front-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/?p=14468","title":{"rendered":"All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I had the pleasure of pulling out one of Maya&#8217;s front teeth. Correction &#8230; 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 &#8211; 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 &#8220;tricks&#8221; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not surprising, Maya wasn&#8217;t going for any of those ideas. It took me two hours to convince her it was time for the tooth to come out <em>and<\/em> that I was the right person to do it. She was ready, then she wasn&#8217;t, then she was ready, then she wasn&#8217;t. This went on, as I said, for two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;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! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2487-1125x1500.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2487-1125x1500.jpeg 1125w, https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2487-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2487-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2487-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2487-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2487-624x832.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/IMG_2487-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh happy day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blogged on Amma&#8217;s iMac with LOVE!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.obyoga.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Unknown.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14439\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I had the pleasure of pulling out one of Maya&#8217;s front teeth. Correction &#8230; 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. 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