No more tooth!

Ellie lost her first tooth! I wasn't there to see it, though. She was at school and it was very, very wiggly in class, so the teacher sent her to the nurse's office. The nurse pulled it out. I guess it didn't hurt because when she told me about it later, it was clearly not a big deal.

The nurse put the tooth in a holder--a little plastic pendant in the shape of a tooth with a string so the kid can wear it as a necklace. Then Ellie called me and left me a message from the nurse's office to tell me what happened.

When we listened to the message, Greg scribbled a new note from the Tooth Fairy to give to Ellie when she got home. It said something about how she knew Ellie had lost her tooth and she would leave her a dollar. (I had already written in previous notes that she would get 50 cents for the tooth.)

When Ellie got off the bus from school, Greg and I were waiting for her and we gathered around to see her missing tooth. It was gone, alright! Unfortunately, somewhere between the bus and the door, the tooth fell out of the holder and we never found it. We told Ellie that the Tooth Fairy would know where it fell and go pick it up.

Greg pulled Ellie over to the table and put the note in front of her. "Look!" he said. "It's from the Tooth Fairy!" It was obviously in Greg's handwriting.

Ellie looked at the note for a bit and started to read it. Then she turned and eyed Greg.

"The Tooth Fairy's handwriting is small! That's big!" Greg and I started laughing.
"You wrote that!" Ellie announced. She pushed the note aside.

So late that night, Greg put a dollar bill under Ellie's pillow. Then he told me to write a note in the Tooth Fairy's tiny handwriting. So I wrote a short note saying thanks for the tooth and here's a dollar instead of the 50 cents we had previously agreed upon.

The next morning, Ellie woke up and checked under her pillow and found the dollar and the note. I read the note to her, and she fell back on the bed with her hand to her forehead when she heard that she was getting a dollar for her tooth. She just couldn't believe it.

It was a fun first tooth, but I'm done with the notes. All the rest of Ellie's teeth are getting anonymous donations. The Tooth Fairy has become way too much work.