"You Think This Is FUNNY?!"

My wonderful, sweet Heber had a loose tooth. It was his second loose tooth and it was his second tooth that already had his permanent tooth growing in behind it. I asked the dentist about 3 months ago to pull it while we were there, but he recommended that we wait. So we did.

It seems like as a kid I would play with a loose tooth incessantly! Heber never even touched it. I told him that we were going to have to pull it if he didn't play with it. His last tooth pulling was a traumatic event and I didn't think he wanted to repeat it.

His tooth was very loose and ready to fall out. Maybe I should have just left it alone and hope that it would eventually just fall out, but hey, three months?! And his tooth was so loose. Brian got the floss, I got a towel and we were both ready to hold him down.

In the middle of the struggle, Heber started yelling, "YOU'RE KILLING ME!!!" And I looked at him in disbelief and laughed....kind of. Not like a "YES!" laugh by any means. It was a laugh of, I wish we didn't have to use all of our muscles to hold down our strong 6 year old body from popping out an extremely loose tooth! Then he yelled, "YOU THINK THIS IS FUNNY!?!" And then I did start laughing. And his tooth was out seconds later.

After he was done and while he was still kind of crying, he said, "Can I call Hannah?" (his cousin who is in the same school class as him.) He told her and her little brother William that he had lost a tooth and got some money.

Heber is wonderful. I hope I never loose this memory of him.