As you watch the video you may notice that Isabel’s tooth is already a little bloody. In our preparation for launch, while positioning children and cameras (phones and iPad) some time after the dental floss was affixed, Josh inadvertently stepped on the line and gave a… slight tug (?) which induced a small bit of bleeding. Isabel wasn’t happen. Our plans were nearly foiled. But due to Isabel’s insistence on an early launch (before the tooth was too loose) it didn’t come out when Josh stepped on the floss. That tooth was hanging on tight! That actually made me a bit nervous for what the rocket might do… so we just increased the pressure and made sure there was plenty of slack to start with 🙂
The sad part about this story is that it happened three weeks too late! Isabel had a loose tooth before this, and she desperately wanted me to come to her school and remove it in front of her class with a rocket. Sadly on the day of, it fell out shortly before I arrived. Not all was lost, we had a great day of rocket launching, and class after class came out to make and launch rockets with us.
The I grabbed the most convenient roll of dental floss I could for this which was one of those small packs they give you in the “goody bag” occasionally when you visit the dentist. Not that I ever noticed right away, but that is an insanely short spool of dental floss. You are looking at an entire previously unopened pack of floss attached between tooth and rocket. Sheesh.
Joshua, not to be outdone also had a tooth removed via rocket!Â
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