tooth fairy

the tooth fairy has been extremely busy around here. on jeff's birthday (wednesday) samendia pulled out a wayward tooth that had been wiggling around for a little while. immensly proud of herself she came up to show me the tooth. i asked her (while having her deposit it in an envelope and marking the outside) if she remembered what i had told steven about the tooth fairy. she did. she was thrilled to go to sleep that night and even more so to wake up to find $2 ht under her pillow! by the time i got downstairs she had already purchased a lollipop and was sucking on it.
so thrilled was she with this new found money-making scheme that she promptly set to work wiggling another one out! by thursday evening it too was out and she was armed with another envelope!! talk about persistent.
unfortunately, it seems everyone wants a piece of the action and i found belle working on mia's tooth for her. i had to have a talk about not forcing our teeth out and not putting our hands in other people's mouths. that said, mia also came up last night with a tooth in her hand and blood on her lip. this time, however, mia did not throw hers on top of the school for the rats to get it!!! (that may be a story for another time!) things being what they are, neither carsen nor i had any batteries left in our cameras to get mia's picture. you'll just have to believe me that we sent two gap-toothed smiles off to school this morning . . . with lollipops!