Pulling teeth

For some reason Frejya's permanent teeth seem to think that there is enough room in her mouth for them without having to get rid of her baby teeth. Every single one of her bottom teeth so far have grown in behind the baby teeth. And those little baby teeth don't even get wiggly or lose their roots because of it. They just hang out there like that's what they're supposed to do. So she had a few of the little guys pulled out when she was in kindergarten. But more recently, she had a tooth on the side come in and the tooth in front of it just stuck straight out at an angle. It drove me crazy for months but the little sucker was not at all wiggly. So frustrating! But last week Frejya had a little accident with her cousin Joshie and banged her tooth on his bike helmet while they were playing. And I was so excited to see that the tooth was finally wiggly!! It was wiggly enough that we knew it had to come out soon, but not wiggly enough for us to pull it out with our hands (Have you ever actually tried pulling someone else's tooth out? They're slippery little things. It's not as easy as you would think). So Gabe grabbed his hook extractors and yanked the tooth out. Frejya didn't feel a thing - that's how ready this tooth was to come out. And can I just tell you that I am so glad it's finally out. It's really too bad it couldn't have come out before school pictures were taken, but whatever. Beggars can't be choosers.