All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth

Just before Thanksgiving, Andy lost his top two front teeth. Not at the same time, but about a week apart. The first one was unexpected. It wasn't as loose as the other, and came out during lunch at school. He bit into something, and out it came onto his plate. One of his classmates had to tell him it fell out. After he lost it, he looked like this:

Yep, a class A hillbilly. Apparently, the left front tooth was coming in and pushing this one out of the way. It kept moving farther and farther over the the right, and I think that's what knocked out the right front tooth. So, he walked around like this for at least a week. We tried to pull the remaining tooth but it just wasn't loose enough. It kind of put a damper on our attempt to take a photo for our holiday cards, because Charlie really didn't want to send them out with him looking like that.

The second tooth finally came out when Charlie accidentally knocked it out while they were wrestling. Well, what really happened was Charlie was wrestling with Sarah and Andy was trying to mess with him, probably tickling, and so Charlie tried to swat Andy away. Instead he actually hit him in the mouth just hard enough to knock out the tooth. Andy wasn't hurt and we were all happy that tooth was out. Believe it or not he had a dentist appointment a few days later and the dentist said it happens that way all the time. Now he looks like this:

Much better. It's a little hard to eat an apple, but he's figuring how to work around it. Anyway, everywhere we go strangers keep asking him if he asked Santa for his two front teeth. Huh? No, I asked Santa for Lego Harry Potter. I tried to explain to him that there is a song titled "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth". He has never heard it. What? When I was a kid we had a holiday music program every year. It was at night, too, so all the parents could come. Or at least that's how I remember it. We sang a few Hanukkah songs and a bunch of Christmas songs, and one of the was always "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth". I think it was the dream of many little kids to be missing those teeth right around the holidays just so they could sing that song. The one he doesn't even know.

I'm surprised they don't sing it as school, but am a little more than thankful that I don't have to fit in a holiday music program this time of year. We're already too busy as it is, and Sarah's program is plenty. So, the other night I sang it for him. I sang all the words I know, which is only about two lines, but happens to be the only lines of the song. Sweet and simple. The first thing he asked me after I finished? Is that really a song? Seriously, you think I would make that up? First, I don't have the ability to think that quickly on my feet. A lot of the versus rhyme. Secondly, I'm too tired for that.

I love how he blindly believes everything I tell him. Not. So I asked Charlie to pull it up on YouTube, something he does believe, no matter how right or wrong it is, and show him that I did not make it up. He instantly found two version, one Disney version sung by Goofy and another sung by the Chipmunks. I got it right word for word.

I don't know that he really wants his two front teeth for Christmas, he'd much rather have Lego Harry Potter, but at least now he knows what everybody is talking about. Oh, and maybe his mom knows a few things after all. Not things that really matter, but things.