Our tooth fairy is rich and apparently very, very BLOND!

UMMMM...our tooth fairy (the male version) forgot last night. The female version was up with Jackson all night and didn't even know that the tooth (and the promisary note for the one that had been lost somewhere in the carpet) had been placed under the pillow. Jack is finally doing better around 2am and I'm thinking that sleep for me is coming when Clyde comes in with a bad dream around 3am. By 4am I finally get him settled in bed with me and am drifting into much needed sleep myself when Seth comes in with the dreaded..."Mommy, the tooth fairy forgot!" Oh crap "Oh sweetie," I say, "she was probably just crazy busy last night." By 5am he is done hitting the bed and squirming around, while Clyde and his nasty night breath are snoring next to me, and I drift off into sleep. Ahh sweet sleep. Around 6am, the male tooth fairy emerges from his upstairs sleeping chambers to shower and get ready for work. I mention the tooth fairy scenario and since Seth is still sleeping next to me he goes to take care of it. Around 7am "MOM!! I got $5 for my two teeth!" Seriously? That's all the tooth fairy had in his wallet? I've got quarters stashed all over this house! "Oh baby that is SO AWESOME!" 7:30am "Guys, go make your beds and clean up your rooms it's about time to get to school." "WoW Mom the tooth fairy forgot my tooth and I still got $5!!!!" "What?" "I found it under my bed! She forgot it!" Geesh! So now Monte Birk has given Seth a quarter for the tooth and has it in his own baggie with you guessed it! HIS name on the bag. He's going to put it under his pillow tonight because "Geeze Mom, this tooth fairy isn't too smart. She won't even notice!"

Told you so!

...and the winner in the loose tooth competition is...SeTh! (just as I predicted). As a side note, yesterday we were driving home from cousins house and he pulled the lower tooth as well! Now he's got a hole on the top and a hole on the bottom. Clyde is a little jealous, but if you know Clyde at all he pretty much goes with the flow...WhaTeVer is his mantra.

twins just being twins

Clyde has had 2 loose teeth on the top for a month now. He keeps asking when they will fall out but he's too scared to wiggle them around. (Don't know why, he's already lost two on the bottom.) The other night, while I was out, he decided it would be fun if Seth had a lose tooth as well. So...while they were watching TV together Clyde reached into Seth's mouth and yanked one of his top front teeth forward. Seth did NOT have a loose tooth at the time, mind you, but when I got home that evening Seth's tooth was sticking straight forward out of his mouth. I now call him my snaggle tooth boy. He is a born tooth wiggler though, so his is sure to come out before either ONE of Clyde's!

One more OUT!

Someone woke up terribly disappointed at 5 am the day after to find that the tooth fairy forgot! Mom assured him that maybe he just hadn’t given her enough time and that he needed to put that tooth back under his pillow and go BACK to sleep (good luck there mom!) Mom dug around for Dad’s wallet in the dark morning hours to see if he had any cash…she certainly did not. And then waited for the disappointed little darling to go the bathroom, or otherwise leave the tooth unattended. Luckily crying out for Mom at 5 am was not enough and at 6 he cried out for Dad to tell him the horrible news. While he was telling Dad of his tooth fairy woes mom gave the small lecture about not being patient and giving the little fairy a chance...all the while with her hand under his pillow, already the money in place. When he had finally put the tooth back, a quick slide of hand and the deed was done! Mom and Dad barely had gotten back into their room when, “Oh my Gosh! Mom it’s crazy! No wonder I didn’t see her …she’s a ghost!” Thank heavens for little miracles that preserve our youth, innocence, fun…and the

tooth fairy!