After placing a mark where the holes would be, two ladies got ready to pull their triggers... Note: She's still smiling!
This is immediately afterwards. The smile is GONE and I thought for sure the tears would follow, but she was very brave and didn't shed a single tear! That's my brave girl!
Feeling a little better, she shows off her new jewelry!
Drew's pain involved her teeth...or rather , one tooth. In my last post, I informed you that Drew had an adult tooth that erupted behind her still firm baby tooth. A few days ago, Drew bravely let me tie a string around the baby tooth and attach the other end to a door knob. SLAM went the door and POP went the.....string. Unfortunately, the tooth remained where it was! Even though we didn't get the tooth out, we did manage to get it really loose! So after lots of tears and a little blood, she felt better. I told her to wiggle it like crazy to see if we could get it even more loose!
This morning, Drew let me tie a string around it and try yanking a little. After a good yank, I felt something break, so I knew it wouldn't be long. I gave her a break and told her to tug at the string herself, which I left tied to her tooth.
Drew was being very wishy washy about tugging at the tooth, so I convinced her to let me try one more time. I was very determined that this thing was coming OUT on the first try! I wrapped the string around my finger, told her it was going to hurt, but I promised to get it out and gave a big yank! Out it came!! The root was still attached! Needless to say, there was lots of blood. After five minutes of pressure, it stopped bleeding and she was left with a rather gnarly looking hole where a baby tooth once resided!
There were lots of tears...as I would expect after a tooth, root and all popped out of her gums, but she quickly calmed down and posed for a few grin shots. In the end, even though it hurt, I'm glad the root came out with the tooth. If it hadn't, I'm not sure her adult tooth would be able to move forward into the spot. Of course, eventually the root would have been absorbed, but how long would it have taken and would the adult tooth eventually have moved forward without the need for braces?? Crisis averted...for now. We'll see what happens with the other bottom tooth. I'm pretty sure she won't let me do that again, though. It may have to be a trip to the dentist the next time! Here she is writing a note to the Tooth Fairy. Tomorrow, when she wakes up to a $5 bill, she'll soon forget all the trauma she went through to earn it.
As promised, here are 2 pictures, taken by one of our chorus directors who happens also to be a photographer. This is our chorus in our costumes for the first half of our annual concert. Obviously we had a 50's theme and sang songs from that era. To find me, find the girl in the front row, standing nearly all the way to your right who is wearing a poodle skirt. She has shoulder-length curly hair. If you look immediately to her right (your left), that is me. I'm standing in the second row. If you REALLY have a hard time finding me, just click on the photo to make it bigger, then scan all the feet on the second riser. It's not too hard finding the big tattoo on the top of my left foot!
Here is our chorus in our competition costumes. This time I am in the front row, third from your right. Our regional competition is coming up next weekend in Syracuse and I'm super excited for it! Many in our chorus love the show, but my highlight is the competition. Our small chorus usually does very well, sometimes winning in our size category, sometimes not. But we almost always raise our score from the previous year! And since I joined in 1999, we have always placed in the top 6...that's not too shabby considering there are at least 20 or so choruses in our size category! I'll keep you posted on our results this year after I return.
Today's quote:
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. ~Sam Keen
To laugh often and much; to win respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of false critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
...and the truth shall set you free. ~John 8:32 (I'm not a religious person, but even authors of fiction can come up with a good quote now and again!)
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