{"id":174,"date":"2010-07-28T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2010-12-24T05:28:14","modified_gmt":"2010-12-24T05:28:14","slug":"look-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/look-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"Look, Mama!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Reason #97 why I&#8217;m not a teacher:\u00a0 Wiggly Teeth<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I don\u2019t like wiggly teeth.\u00a0 They gross me out.\u00a0 They make my skin crawl, and they just don\u2019t look natural at all!<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Preston has about 30 wiggly teeth right now\u2026ok, he has 3, but he just lost 2 teeth in July, and 3 more are loose!<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The top tooth he lost in this picture hung on for WEEKS by a little thread.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know how he ate anything.\u00a0 It was so nasty!\u00a0 He finally bit into an apple and it came out.\u00a0 I should have given him an apple 3 weeks earlier!<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tooth1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-177\" title=\"tooth1\" src=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tooth1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tooth1.jpg 493w, http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tooth1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This tooth came out while chewing gum.\u00a0 Thank goodness it wasn&#8217;t wiggly for too long.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tooth21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-178\" title=\"tooth2\" src=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tooth21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tooth21.jpg 593w, http:\/\/therealhousewife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/tooth21-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He loves to wiggle them.\u00a0 He loves to show everyone.\u00a0 It\u2019s just nasty!\u00a0 He may\u00a0 start first grade with about 8 teeth missing, which he\u2019s super excited about!\u00a0 Such a boy!<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">***<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He gets really excited about the Tooth Fairy, but the Tooth Fairy that comes to our house is very irresponsible. About six months ago she forgot to come.\u00a0 He was worried, but I happened to&#8230;uh&#8230;find the money for him.\u00a0 You see, it had mysteriously fallen under the bed and he just didn\u2019t see it.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This time, when there was no money under his pillow, my child took all the pillows off the bed, took everything out from under the bed, crawled under the bed.\u00a0 It was perfectly clear there was no money.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">When Lilly Katherine woke up, she busted out of the bedroom like a wild elephant, as she does every morning, and yelled, \u201cPreston, did the Tooth QUEEN leave you some money?\u201d\u00a0 He just sadly said, \u201cNo.\u00a0 She forgot.\u201d<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, that silly Tooth Fairy left 4 quarters on the table where Preston eats breakfast.\u00a0 He didn\u2019t buy it.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This week the Tooth Fairy remembered to come.\u00a0 I saw her come at about 3 am, but at least she remembered, and that\u2019s all that matters.\u00a0 I also saw her borrow the dollar from another child\u2019s birthday money, but it will be repaid\u2026as soon as she remembers which child&#8217;s money it was.<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the meantime, I want to know, who came up with the idea of a fairy floating around giving money for nasty, bloody, little teeth?\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure some mom made it up because she was tired of seeing a dead tooth dangle from her child&#8217;s face!\u00a0 Thank you Tooth Fairy creator for giving moms just one more thing to remember (or forget) to do before going to bed.<\/span><\/h3>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason #97 why I&#8217;m not a teacher:\u00a0 Wiggly Teeth I don\u2019t like wiggly teeth.\u00a0 They gross me out.\u00a0 They make my skin crawl, and they just don\u2019t look natural at all! 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