1. Spiders. Sure most people don't necessarily like spiders, but I take my dislike of spiders up a notch or two.
2. Loose teeth.
3. Seeing Oprah Winfrey sans makeup.
Clearly this post today will touch on loose teeth and my inability to deal with it.
Now then, anyone with small children know that loose teeth are inevitable. At around age 5 you can expect baby teeth to loosen and eventually fall out. If I could send my children away to some sort of boarding school for kids with wiggly teeth, and then welcome them home whenever their adult teeth were firmly in place, trust me, I would.
To say that wiggly teeth freak me out would be a great understatement. In fact, the worst words my kids have ever said to me is " HEY MOMMY!!! Look!! I have a loose tooth!! *wiggling said tooth back and forth wildly* It's about this time that I run off in the opposite direction while yelling for Brent to take a look at the amazing event.
"Oh DEAR GOD!! Ahem.. No, that's great baby. Now go show Daddy quick! I know he really wants to see that because it's SO exciting!"
Does this make me a horrible Mother? I mean, shouldn't I be able to sit down with my kids and be excited about them losing a baby tooth? Shouldn't I be able to help them *GASP* pull it out if the need were to ever arise?
The answer to those questions would be HELL NO! The way I see it, I grew their little asses inside of me and gave them life for 9 months. Then I had them attached to my boobs for several months after that. I refuse to feel guilty about not partaking in the various loose teeth celebrations around the homestead.
In the past couple of weeks Aidan has let me in on the horrible news that he has 4 loose teeth. I smiled and acted excited, then I assured him that I didn't need to see the evidence. One tooth in particular was very loose. It was his front tooth. When he smiled it looked as though it was hanging on by a thread. Then a few days later actually began to hang lower than his other tooth.

In other words, it began to look ridiculous. He would talk out the side of his mouth and eat food on the side of his mouth. I though that he was only moments away from talking with a whistle like that annoying gopher in Winnie The Pooh.
Wiggly tooth phobia be damned. Something had to be done. So we decided to play a little game. I was the dentist, and Aidan was my patient. Yes, I was able to summon the courage to pull the tooth that was practically dangling to the floor. The problem is, when I gave it a good yank, the damn thing didn't budge. I was so grossed out that I had to run out of the room shivering violently the whole way. Then I had to call in the other "Dentist" that was on call. Brent went up to the room to get the job done right, or so he thought. Turns out he sucks as well. Fail number 2.
What the hell? How could that damn thing be so firmly attached still? Teeth are fucking stupid!
Anyway, Aidan was sufficiently scared by those events so we decided to give it a rest for the next couple of weeks. I instructed him to keep wiggling it (when I wasn't around) so that it would continue to get more loose.
Well it did get more loose, and Aidan began to essentially look like 6 yr old hick. I mean, short of sporting a mullet while listening to bad country music at a NASCAR event, and smoking a pack of menthol's while simultaneously downing a 6 pack of Bud, he couldn't have been more hick if he tried. I knew I had to pull out the big guns.
Mommy of the year- You know Aidan, you really should try pulling your own tooth. It looks loose enough for a light breeze to knock it right out of there.
Aidan- No it's not!
Mommy of the year- Fine. All I know is that the tooth fairy isn't going to go digging through your poop when you end up swallowing your tooth.
Aidan- I'm sure she has gloves that she can wear.
Mommy of the year- Yes, but your tooth will lose it's value if it's covered in poop.
So anyway, I'm not sure what it was that encouraged Aidan to want the tooth to finally come out, but he was finally ready. Brent the Dentist did the extracting just in case you were curious. As you can see, the patient was very happy about finally losing his dangle tooth.

Good news is that we can repeat this event several more times.







Bradley fing Cooper. Mmm. Just look at him. Seriously, take a minute to bask in his glory. I'll wait. He may look familiar to you. He's one of the funny guys in The Hangover, and he's the single biggest reason you should go and see this movie. I mean, assuming laughing your ass off wasn't a good enough reason to go and see it. At least now you also have this lovely piece of eye candy to stare at. Let's face it, Fat Jesus and the toothless guy weren't really going to do it for me. 


So after purchasing some alcoholic beverages and a bag of 20 dollar peanuts 





Uh, yeah. Not so much. I mean, from the neck up I've pretty much met my goal, but since Brent isn't going to be carrying around my head on the beach, I've got some serious fucking work to do. So I've got this new totally attainable goal to lose roughly 102 pounds in the next 43 days.


