Marble bribery

Corbyn's bottom two teeth were very loose. Images of me standing in the kitchen and my dad offering to get the pliar's out of the garage everytime I had a loose tooth kept running through my mind. So my decision with his loose tooth stemmed from my childhood experiences-as so many of them do:

LEAVE THE POOR CHILD ALONE.

Option A: his teeth will fall out.

Option B: he will get sick of them dangling and yank them out himself.

Lest you forget -there are two parents in this house. The Daddy had different plans.

Corbyn has been working hard to earn 45 marbles to trade in for his Lego Indiana Jones-wii game. To a five year old boy this is his bread and butta. One marble for matching socks. One marble for vacuuming stairs. One marble for setting the table. FORTY FIVE IS A LOT. So Travis told him he would give him 5 marbles if he let him yank it out. Corbyn thought for a minute and said-not today Dad. So everyday Travis lay the deal on the table and Corbyn refused. I left to go teach on Tuesday night and get a text right before class starts and holy cow. Travis yanked that tooth out and Corbyn got 5 marbles. Now, with the 5 marbles he was still one short so he quickly cleaned the play room for one more. Alas Indiana Jones was in his clutches!

Corbyn still had one more loose tooth that he wouldn't let Travis pull. Later that week he came home from school and it was gone!

"Holy cow Corbyn where is your other tooth?"

"Uh, I dunno, I guess it fell out?"

"You didn't know it was gone?"

"Nope."

Well okay then, 2 teeth down. Lot's more to go.

Here is Corbyn cashing in his marbles for the game.

Ty has great fashion sense doesn't he?