No More Monkeys Jumping on the Bed!

The New Year started off with a bang for Tagg...literally!

Rees had just downloaded some music and the boys were listening to it in our room and Darin and Tagg decided to jump on the bed.  As I was walking in to put the kabosh on the bed jumping Tagg fell over crying.  What the heck?!  Apparently he tripped on Darin and came down on Luke's head. Ouch!

After some examination this is what Tagg's tooth looked like.  Totally cracked and broken!!

Mind you Luke's head was totally fine. :) After a call to a friend that is a dentist he reassured me I didn't have to take him in anywhere yet...since it was Sat. night.  Our friend looked at it at church the next day and suggested we see a pediatric dentist.  

So lucky us there is one right in our little city.  After xrays, cleaning, the dentist said he needed to pull the cracked portion off to see how bad it was, they might be able to crown it.  After some drugs and laughing gas (poor Tagg) it was realized that the crack went across his nerve...(I had yet to give him anything for pain, he never complained - what a trooper!) So the dentist proceed with a root canal just to realize that the crack went past the gum line, so he suggested to extract the tooth to be safe if there was any damage to the root.  

So after about a 3 hour visit to the dentist this is the tooth they pulled with the broken piece.

Tagg was so brave and good!

He was excited that the tooth fairy would come and he got a note with some money.  Darin was jealous that Tagg got a visit from the tooth fairy before him.  I told him he didn't want to go through what Tagg did to get tooth fairy money. 

Tagg after the extraction.  He has a nice gap now.  He will definitely need ortho work now because his teeth will most likely shift because of the space. 

So let this be a lesson to you all: "No more MONKEYS jumping on the bed!  

My kids had a talking to after this incident. 

Boys will be boys!