The Tooth Story - Part 2

The week after Landon lost his tooth we took him to see the dentist.  They took an x-ray and confirmed what we already thought - the root was still there and it had to come out - and that would require surgery.  So, the next Monday we took Landon to see a different dentist and we thought he'd be having the surgery that day.  Turns out the dentist we saw prefers to do surgeries on kiddos Landon's age at Children's so...no surgery that day.  We scheduled the surgery for Wednesday.  We had to be at the hospital at 12:30 and since my friends at work had planned a baby shower lunch that day I had to meet Jim and Landon there.  When I got there Landon was already wearing his Children's Hospital pants and shirt and he was watching "tb".  Dada said he had been so good since they got there!  After I got there we met with several different people and answered a gazillion questions about our little guy's health and then we met with the anesthesiologist.  We all knew this was going to be a minor procedure...but he's our baby and surgery is scary.  Then, we waited....and we waited...and we waited some more.  We took Landon down to the playroom for a while and he had fun playing with the toys.  Finally around 3 they took him back for surgery and Jim and I waited in the waiting room.  We were told they had blocked an hour for the surgery so we sort of expected it to take that long.  We were surprised when they were done less than 20 minutes later!  The dentist came out and told us that everything went well and he gave is the root of the tooth that he took out.  When we got to go back and see Landon in recovery he looked so cute and kind of sad all at the same time...he was just sitting in his bed and then when he saw us he got super mad!  He did the same thing after he woke up from having tubes put in his ears.  He wanted his IV out immediately and he cried and cried.  We got him settled down enough to get him to the car and he was just fine by the time he and dada got home.  A few hours later you would have never even known that we had spent 4 hours at the hospital!  He was jumping off the ottoman and running crazy like normal!  He's pretty tough and we kinda like him...and I was sure to say extra prayers for the families at Children's who are there for far more serious issues than we experienced.  

Landon couldn't have anything but water or apple juice the morning of the surgery so I bought him this super cool Spiderman apple juice!  He thought it was the best special surprise ever!

Hanging out in his hospital pj's.

Landon got a milkshake on our way home!  That's the second one this week!  He's going to be spoiled for sure!  

Mom!  Quit taking my picture!  You're interrupting Charlie Brown!

Nana and Papa brought Landon some balloons to make him feel better!  Landon loved them!!

By dinnertime our little guy was fine...he had 'acaroni and cheese" and kiwi.

And he left the root of his tooth out for the tooth fairy!!!

Here it is Tooth Fairy!  I want a Woody doll this time!

This morning Landon found this!  WOW!  $20!!!  I guess the tooth fairy leaves extra if you have to have surgery!

I wonder if she also pays hospital bills? Ha!

This is the conversation I had with Landon this morning after he discovered what the tooth fairy left him...

Me:  "Wow Landon!  Look!  The tooth fairy left you $20!  That will surely buy you a Woody doll!".

Landon:  "NO!  Dat's not money!

Me: "It's not?  Then what is it?"

Landon:  "Dat's not money!  It's a...aaaa....it's a ticket!"

Me: (Trying not to laugh - clearly he hasn't grasped the concept of paper money...

which is probably a good thing. ) "Okay, well tomorrow  we'll take your ticket and go buy you a Woody doll!"

Landon:  "otay"