child like faith

Okay, so we had another “only with Jamin” moment. The other day while doing homework with the kids at the table, Jack noticed something black behind Jamin’s new front tooth. (He lost his two front teeth and they are just starting to grow back.) I looked and after a moment of nausea, I could look no longer. We asked Jamin what it was and he didn’t know. I thought for sure he was going to lose his permanent tooth. It was awful. I was on my way out the door (the fresh air being necessary at the time.) When I arrived back home I was greeted with the news that Jamin had remembered what was in his tooth, at school (two weeks ago) he was working with the plastic confetti (you know the silver circles and pink hearts) making me a Christmas tree. He must have got bored, again, and proceeded to see how many pieces he could shove between his tooth and gums. I got the tweezers and proceeded to pull out four- they just kept coming! There were still more that I could see but could not retrieve. As I put Jamin to bed that night I was explaining that the dentist may have to cut his gums open to get them out, his response was “it’s okay mom, I prayed that it wouldn’t hurt.” And he slept better than I did!We were praying maybe in the morning they would work themselves out more and I could remove them. That however did not happen. I could actually see less of them. The next morning I made an appointment with the dentist. He was able to retrieve the two remaining circle and heart without cutting. He said, while laughing, he had to take a picture because this was so unusual.

What a reminder Jamins response was to me of simple child like faith. I wish I were more like my 7 year old son.