but Sarah lost her 4th tooth tonight.

I was at the grocery store and DH was getting the kids ready for bed.

I came home and the kids were already in bed. So I went in to give them a kiss and tuck them into bed.
Sarah was all excited because she said she knocked her tooth loose.

I turned on the light to see that one of her top center teeth (which was only slightly loose prior... same as the other center top tooth) was practically hanging out of her mouth!
It was mega ready to come out.

So I asked her how that happened. She said she was flossing her tooth and I'm not exactly sure, her story is hard to understand, but I believe she said she bumped herself while flossing and her had recoiled and hit her top tooth and knocked it loose.

This was at ~8;30 that I was talking to her.
She comes out of her room at 9:30 and tells me that she can't sleep because her tongue keeps going to the tooth
(and she can't help but wiggle it) and she wanted it OUT!

Well, I took her to the bathroom and I tried to pull that thing out, but it was - despite how it looked - still pretty firmly in there. She cried. It bled, and she decided rather than me yank some more, she'd just go to bed.
10pm comes... she still can't sleep.
so we wiggle some more. I just let her stand there in the bathroom while I sat on the toilet seat waiting... while she wiggled and wiggled. I figured it was probably more productive for her to do it in the bathroom then laying in bed

So finally, she says she wants me to do it with a string and a door.
So we go into the other room and I get some of my thick thread and tie it to her tooth.
DH asks me "is that going to work?"
I said "probably not, but that's what she wants to do"
so I tied it to the door and before she even got a countdown or had time to be prepared or flinch. I jerked the door shut and out popped the tooth!

then we had to go hunting for the tooth in the carpet!

She has her 4th tooth on the bottom rather loose still (and here I thought THAT was the tooth that would come out next ) and I could probably get a string to yank that one out too...

and maybe someone can sock her in the mouth and she can loose that other top tooth and be all up to speed

I took a picture -- she looks adorable with the big gap in her mouth.

So the old door knob trick DOES work. lol She is a brave little girl.