The Tooth Fairy must have been busy last night...

Before we went to my parents' house this past weekend, Larissa showed us that she had a loose tooth. It wasn't about to fall out, so I figured it could just wait until we got back home to pull out and put in the Tooth Fairy pillow. Well, she could not leave it alone, and by Sunday evening, it was sticking straight out only hanging by a thread. We teased her that Papa (my dad) was going to have to get the pliers after it. That's how he used to pull some of our teeth when we were kids. Larissa didn't care though--she has a high tolerance for pain and has not cried once during a tooth-pulling session. When she showed Papa her tooth, he said, "Aw, we don't need the pliers." He reached in and pulled her tooth out without any trouble. He did it so quickly and effortlessly that I actually had to ask him if he got it. =) Larissa was thrilled! Here she is with Papa...


We decided that we didn't want to do the whole Tooth Fairy thing until we got back home, so we told Larissa that the Tooth Fairy wouldn't come to Granny and Papa's house and that we'd have to wait until we got home. =) She was fine with that--I think she was just glad to get that tooth out of her mouth.

We got home Monday evening and honestly forgot about the tooth. I spotted it just after I had put the girls to bed last night, so I took it in their room and gave Larissa her Tooth Fairy pillow to put in bed with her.

This morning when I came into the kitchen, Alyx looked at me wide-eyed and said, "Did you hear the news?" I had no clue what she was talking about. She proceeded to inform me that the Tooth Fairy did not come last night and that Larissa still had her tooth.

Oops! I wondered if that would ever happen. We've been so good about remembering in the past. I guess we were just extra tired last night and forgot to go back in there after they went to sleep.

They were all venturing guesses as to why the Tooth Fairy had not come. Alyx thought that maybe since it had rained during the night, she didn't want to get all wet. They also thought that maybe the Tooth Fairy had too many kids to go to last night and just wasn't able to make it to us. I said that maybe it was because we did it at the last minute and it was so late.

She better not forget tonight! I don't know what I'll say to them. =)

Here she is sticking her tongue through her two empty spaces.