Two for the Tooth Fairy

Chrissy lost a tooth at school today. She brought it home in a bag that had a cute card on it that said "Hip Hip Hooray! I lost a tooth today!" Immediately on entering the house she went upstairs and put the tooth in her tooth fairy pillow.

After I tucked the girls in for the night, panic ensued when Chrissy checked for her tooth and couldn't find it in either of the tooth fairy pillows in the room. So I was called in to help with the search (nearly impossible in the girls' room, despite it having been cleaned just 2 days ago). We searched the area around, and then I asked to see the pillow that Chrissy was fairly certain she had put her tooth in. Digging deeper than little hands would go, I found a tiny tooth shoved into the root area of the tooth-shaped pocket on the pillow. Relieved, Chrissy replaced the tooth a little less deeply and set it under her pillow.

As I was getting up to go, I moved to put the other tooth fairy pillow away, and noticed a tiny lump in the root area of that pillow's tooth-shaped pocket. Sure enough, there was a second tooth in there. Marty was briefly excited that she might get some tooth fairy money for it, but I explained that there was statute of limitations on lost teeth. Besides, she was fairly frequently paid for lost or otherwise missing teeth (like her first TWO!, that she swallowed). Also, that particular pillow had been mine when I was little, so for all we knew it was one of my old teeth.

We finally settled on putting both teeth into Chrissy's tooth fairy pillow to make sure that the tooth fairy received the correct tooth. Phew. Now we can all sleep in peace. :o)