Jan 21 2009
Rudolph’s Bad Influence
I wrote about B’s internal calendar working on its own schedule and mentioned that he is still watching Rudolph on DVD daily last week. Tonight that became a bit of a problem. Rudolph is teaching him bad, bad things!
One of the characters in the story is an elf that wants to be a dentist. He solves a problem by pulling the tooth from the abominable snowman, and talks about his passion for dentistry. He happens to be B’s favorite character in the show, and the one B quotes the most when not actively watching the show.
Yesterday morning B came to me and told me he had a loose tooth. He absolutely hates having a loose tooth. He has stood in front of a mirror for hours wiggling his tooth until it came out in the past. He wanted me to pull it this morning, but I said no, as it was nowhere near loose enough to pull. We got home and he immediately asked me to pull it again. I declined again, telling him it wasn’t ready yet.
Ten minutes later he walks up to me and deposits his tooth in my hand. He is bleeding everywhere and he’s very proud of himself. He used sheer brute force to remove that tooth! He then quoted a line from Rudolph about pulling teeth, and I realized why he thought he could just yank it out. Yikes!
I cleaned him up and he was fine, but it was a quite disturbing visual reminder of how impulsive he can be when he sets his mind to it. He hates the idea of the tooth fairy, so I just washed the tooth and put it away. Once that tooth is out of his mouth, he never wants to see it again!
At least he didn’t try to pull a permanent tooth, right?
Owww.. that must have been so painful, what a trooper. The things he comes up with. You have got to write a book. :o)
Yeowtch! Ruthie lost her two front teeth within minutes of each other last night, but not like that!
Milo wanted to know when his teeth would come out and got upset when I told him I couldn’t answer that. He said he’d just wiggle his teeth until they came out then and started trying to wiggle random teeth. I thought that was kind of cute. Not anymore - ack!
Oh wow. That’s kind of scary!