Laura Loses Her First Tooth

Laura lost her first tooth at dinner. I must say that we were all ready for it to fall out. This tooth has been on center stage at both school and home for at least a week.

At conferences, Laura's teacher had mentioned that her classmates have been jockeying for position for who will walk with her to the nurses office if it should fall out during school. At home, Laura has been constantly rocking it back and forth in our faces - reminding us that it's close to coming out. Neither Mom or I want any part of the extraction process. Just the thought of pulling it gets me weak in the knees.

Like I had mentioned, the tooth fell out at dinner via caramel apple. The grossest part was hearing the sound of it clinking onto the table. Uffda! Laura's initial reaction... like many "first times" in her young life, was immediate shocked/scared but quickly came to be excited/happy!

Can you tell what's missing?

Tooth Fairy

Cue up the Benny Hill theme song. This ordeal did not go according to plan.

Laura placed her tooth, wrapped in Kleenex, under her pillow. At midnight, I watched "The Tooth Fairy" get on her hands and knees to make the switch. She turned around and said it's not there. So, I went in, moved blankets, removed pillows and searched with a flashlight. 

Suddenly, Laura woke up and I froze. She opened her eyes and said, "Dad, what are you doing?" I said that I was placing the the tooth toward the edge of the bed so the tooth fairy could find it easily." She fell back asleep. 

The tooth was gone! We assumed that Laura probably had played or looked at it in the dark and it dropped somewhere by her bed. The next morning, she ran into our room and was excited to see the present. Both Mom and I took turns to go into her room and look for it. Still not there. 

Pretty Smile

Fast forward five days. Laura was playing in her room and I walked in to see what she was doing - because it was awfully quiet. I sat next to her on the floor in the middle of her room. There it was! Embedded into the carpet, right behind from where she was sitting. In haste, I quietly grabbed it and showed it to Mom. We don't know if Laura hid it or it was sitting there the whole time. Nevertheless, the whole ordeal and mystery was finally solved.