Dental news

So. On Tuesday, Micah lost a molar. He actually wiggled it out on his own. This, in itself, is a miracle. (He has a history of dental drama...see here and here and here for examples, lol.)

But. His bravery at pulling his own tooth (which was actually more of an accident) was short lived. ;) As soon as it came out (about 30 minutes before karate), he promptly declared himself unable to go on. There were tears. There was exclamation over the blood (a very few dabs of blood). There was questioning as to whether fluids could make their way into his brain through the hole in his mouth. Yeah. He didn't make it to karate that day.

After Asher and I got home from karate, Micah was still going on about how weird his mouth felt. :) 

Sigh.

That night, he left a note with his tooth. It's his second or third attempt to get the tooth fairy's name, lol. I'm told, though, that each family has a different tooth fairy and that each one has his or her own name. (Apparently, one of his classmates at Options has a tooth fairy named Jonathan.) In the past, our tooth fairy asked simply to be called The Molinator. This didn't satisfy Micah. So...

Now you know. ;)

Oh. And Micah informs me that the tooth fairy's last name is Hoeslworld. Yes, really. Apparently, Micah dreamed this and believes that the tooth fairy was trying to send him a message. I'm not going to argue with that. :)

In other news, the next day (Wednesday) Asher got his bottom braces on. First, I treated him to brunch and documented his teeth without braces:

And then there's the after picture:

Unlike his brother, he's barely complained a peep. He did sit out on his sparring class at karate, on account of the mouth guard hurting still, but he's good to go today. :) 

Btw, I continue to be impressed with the progress that's being had with these braces. Those top teeth are really coming along!

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[Shawn]

Stella used to leave multiple question notes for the tooth fairy. Every tooth! Thank goodness she ran out of teeth.