“Daddy, my tooth is really loose!”, said Kyle as he approached his dad after we had put him and his brother down for the night.
My husband was ready to pull the tooth out and immediately searched the internet about how to do it. Are you kidding me? What happens if it bleeds and hurts him so bad that he can’t go to sleep? So I asked Kyle to go back to bed and told him that we’d deal with it tomorrow. I know that my husband had a good intention but sometimes when it comes to handling the kids, he doesn’t know what to do, which I don’t blame him because most dads don’t.
Okay, first of all, if you have a 6-year old who’s ready to lose a tooth, don’t panic. I have to admit that I was a little scared when Kyle’s first tooth was loose because I didn’t know what to do with it. But I learned that the best way to deal with it is to let it come out by itself. He’s not going to stop wiggling it with his tongue, which will speed up the process and when it’s time to come out, it will just pop out by itself. No pain, no blood. If you force it to come out, there’s a great chance that you will hurt the kid and that it will get ugly. And by ugly I mean bloody mess that will freak both you and the kid out.
And a day or two later, the tooth came out. He already has his new tooth grown behind the baby one but the problem is, the new one is much bigger compares to the old one and it doesn’t fit in the gap. His dentist said it’s a common problem because baby teeth are generally smaller than the permanent ones so we will have to wait until he gets older and his mouth gets bigger to make room for all of his permanent teeth. So we’ll see.
Anyway, I hadn’t updated the blog for a long time due to my back problem (another excuse, I know). I have been dealing with a bad lower back pain for about a couple of months now and it was pretty bad that it was in my mind 24/7 for a while. I have had a couple of trips to the doctor (and emailed him a couple of times), a lab test, an ultrasound, two x-rays and a visit to a physical therapist, all without any result whatsoever. I’ve done a series of stretching that was recommended by my PT but I didn’t feel any relief from it. At this point I just decided to ignore it. I have lived with it for so long that I forget what it feels like not having a back pain. It’s sad and is frustrating for all of us. What makes my back pain different than most is that I feel it after I have been on my feet for a while, especially on a concrete floor like at the stores. There are times when all I want to do is to lounge on the couch and release the pressure of my back, which helps tremendously afterward. I don’t like taking medicine because to me it’s like putting poison in my body unless I can’t take it anymore. They gave me some prescription pain killers which help ease the pain a little but I rarely take them.
So that’s what’s going on with us. Loose teeth, back pain…..boy, does it sound fun or what? Lol. I was so excited about our plan for the road trip this Summer but after having my back pain, I don’t even feel like browsing the internet for hotels and attractions anymore. I told Kyle that we might have to cancel the trip because I probably couldn’t do a lot of walking and he told me that I could use a wheelchair. What? That kid is something else, I tell you.
Speaking of teeth and back pain, I have to say that having a back pain is like having a toothache. It’s annoying and gets on your nerve sometimes. And if you add two rambunctious boys into the mix, you’ll get an aggravated mother. Last night I had a vision of what our house would look like when the boys are in college and told my husband about it. We both agreed that it would look sparkling clean and that you wouldn’t find any dust anywhere — yes, we’re clean freaks and are proud of it. People would probably too afraid to step into our house because everything would be so shiny. Lol. I like the idea but when I look at my two crazy boys on these pictures, I know that I’ll wish they’d be this small forever albeit all the mess they leave behind.
If these couches could talk, they’d scream and ask the boys to leave them alone. This is what happens if you have to bored boys on a Saturday morning in the winter; they make tunnels out of the cushions. My husband was so proud of them and took a bunch of pictures and even videotaped it.
“Sweetie! You want to see their video? They made a u-shaped tunnel!”, my husband said to me with the camera on his hand and all I could see was this huge mess in the family room. Oh, my.
But I have to say that after watching the video and looking at the pictures that my husband took, I was happy to see how much fun they had while crawling inside the tunnel with headlamps on their foreheads. Hahaha. How priceless is that?
Back to the teeth, Kyle figured out that there was no tooth fairy after all. He asked if I put the 1 dollar bill inside the little blue box where his first tooth was and found out it was daddy who did it. I can’t lie to him — we teach him that lying (or exaggerating) is a sin. So (sadly) he’ll just have to live with a fact that tooth fairy — and santa claus — isn’t real. They’re just make believe, as he’d say.
Alright, hope you have a nice week (it’s wet and soggy here in Oregon) and thanks for stopping by.



































































