The Story of the Renegade Snaggletooth
Okay, you can be honest with me. Is this not the most duh-SGUST-ing snaggletooth you’ve ever seen? Of course, this is a photo of one of my boy’s mouths, because apparently we now we have gone “whole honyock” and started growing teeth in front of our other teeth before they feel it’s time to fall out.
So Boy #2 walked around like this for a good week and a half. I’m not going to lie to you, friends. It was pretty disturbing. That tooth hung a good two inches below the other front tooth, and I’m pretty sure it had already died because it started taking on a rather decayed look.
But would it fall out? Oh, no. Of course not. Not even when Boy #2, who already has an “issue” with having his thumb in his mouth, wiggled that thing every waking minute.
It just continued to hang on. And I really started to believe that it was actually taunting us. The tooth. The cowlick that refuses to stay down. The clothes that are notoriously on backwards. Boy #2 was starting to look like the Honyock Poster Child.
And just when we thought we were going to have to start claiming that tooth as another dependent on our income taxes—it happened.
Boy #2 came running down the stairs: “Mom! Dad! Guess what? My tooth fell out!”
“OH, THANK GOD!!!” “Oh, isn’t that nice?” I said. “So where is it?”
“I lost it.”
“I know; you said that. But where is the tooth so you can put it under your pillow?”
“No, I lost it,” Boy #2 said, with a newfound lisp.
“Well, where did you lose it?” I asked.
“In your bed.”
Fabulous. Just what I want—to wake up in the morning with a fugitive snaggletooth imbedded in my cheek.
Fortunately, after sending in the reconnaissance to rifle through my sheets, the tooth was recovered and has since been taken to wherever the Tooth Fairy stashes snaggleteeth.
And Boy #2 no longer has something to gross out his brothers with. But I am entirely confident that he’ll find something soon.
So how much did the tooth fairly leave for the stubborn toof?
Congratulations to #2!! He certainly looks handsome.
Was he able to use his tooth pirate pillow?
Sarah, apparently the Tooth Fairy did not leave ENOUGH. She left $1, which I thought was plenty generous (I’m sure the bad economy is hitting the fairy world hard as well). But I was told by Coel that “The Tooth Fairy is SUPPOSED to give more for the top teeth, but she just gave me a dollar.” (Apparently there is some comparing of the going rate going on among the first-graders…
$1 wasn’t enough…man…that is all we give.
Hunter had a snaggle tooth, it took forever for the baby one to fall out too. I did a happy dance when it finally happened though, it was nasty.
That must run in the family!! #1 complained for a couple of weeks that her mouth hurt, and I told her she was fine, and to suck it up. Then one day she opened her mouth really big while talking, and I noticed that 2 teeth had COMPLETELY grown in behind her front 2, and I was just now noticing! Ryan can’t even look at it. We call them her shark teeth. One has fallen out since, but the other one is stubborn!! Oh, and the tooth fairy left $1 at our house too, and I think she thought she was being generous. Word on the street is $5 is the going rate…dang!!