At Last...

One of the great trials of Hayden's young life thus far has been the stubborn persistence of his two front teeth.  Being nearly 8 and not having lost a single tooth is almost too ghastly to mention.  When all of his second grade class has lost one or more teeth already...well, you can imagine the turmoil of his poor little soul.  However, Hayden has endured this hardship fairly well, with only the occasional, "Why ME?"

On Tuesday when Jeremy and Hayden went to the dentist for checkups, Jeremy asked Dr. Waite to just yank Hayden's front teeth out on the sly and put him out of his misery.   Not wanting to tramatize him, Dr. Waite didn't pull, but instead wiggled them around a lot to hopefully speed up the process.

So imagine my surprise when I see a beaming gap-toothed Hayden walking towards me when I went to pick him up from school that day.  He proudly told me that Ashton, a classmate, had backed into him and knocked his tooth right out.  He reenacted the scene, going into great detail about the amount of blood lost.  He walked around the rest of the day, flaunting his gaping hole like a badge of honor.  After giving it some thought, he wondered if he could ask Ashton to knock his other tooth out. :)