Tooth Hell

Eli has had his second loose tooth. All was good until his shark tooth came up and lodged the other tooth into being "un-loose". So for the past six weeks (maybe longer) we have been wiggling his tooth daily (with much opposition from him). Yesterday, on our way down the canyon we hear this blood-curdling, someone-just-cut-my-pinkie-toe-off-and-is-threatening-to cut-off-my-ring-finger scream. I whip around, "E, what happened?"

"PUT IT BACK IN!!!"

Put what back in?"

SCREAM!!!

"PUT MY TOOTH BACK IN!!!"

He had put something in his mouth and it had somehow pulled his tooth out.

More screaming.

"PUT IT BACK! I DON'T WANT TO GO TO TOYS'R'US (I had told him that if he let us wiggle and get the tooth out we could go and get a Pokemon at T'R'U, I am not above bribery)!!!!"

More crying, me turning around and biting my fist I was laughing so hard. I told him that we can't put it back in.

BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAMING!!! Mouth as big as the moon.

"I AM NEVER WIGGLING ANOTHER TOOTH EVER AGAIN! I WILL NEVER LOSE ANOTHER TOOTH! PUT IT BACK!"

Since I was dropping Dave and Eli off to a father and son camp out, we decided that we would save the tooth for the fairy for tonight. Dave lost it. So I had to put his other tooth in it's place.

Eli, "Dad, where is my tooth? Oh no, I shouldn't have said that word." He said this while shaking his head sadly.

Dave, "What word?"

"Tooth. It makes me sad, we can't say it anymore."

Me, coming into the room with the replacement tooth (good thing I kept the creepy thing) and showing it too him. He looked at it for a good 2 minutes, I thought we were sunk, it does look different from the one that came out yesterday.

Me, "Here is your tooth."

Eli, "We can't say that word."

"What word?"

"Tooth."

"Why?"

"It makes me very sad. Will you please tell the Fairy (notice he did not say tooth) that I would like to keep it?"

"Keep what?"

"IT!"

"Ok, I'll send the message."

"Will I still get money?"

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the view yesterday was so pretty!

Tonight, I told the kids to stop running with suckers in their mouths. Caroline stops short, turns the sucker around, puts the stick back in her mouth with the sucker not in her mouth and says, "Can I run with the stick in my mouth?"

This may lead to more loose teeth

Did you know that when I type "tooth" this many times, it begins to look as though I spelled it wrong?