Busy Tooth Fairy

If anyone out there is missing the Tooth Fairy that would be because she's been quite busy with Ashley and Jack over the past week and a half. On Valentine's Day we went to a friend's daughter's birthday party. They had a bounce house which the kids dove into right away. Well as is to be expected the kids got a little rowdy and Jack wound up getting bonked in the chin by another child. Normally this would not be a problem, however he had a loose tooth on the bottom. It wasn't quite loose enough to be ready to come out, but the collision between Jack and the other child caused it to come almost completely out. It was not a pretty site and we felt so bad for him, especially because he was supposed to be going to Ninja Nite with his sister later that day. We gave him some ibuprofen for the pain and headed home. When we got almost home he piped up from the back seat that he was feeling fine and wanted to go to Ninja Nite. So we took the kids and checked with Sensei (the teacher/owner) and he said it was fine that he would keep an eye on Jack and his loose tooth. Especially because there was yet another bounce house. When we went to pick up the kids sure enough Jack had lost his tooth. Sensei wrapped it up for us and we put it under Jack's pillow that night for the Tooth Fairy.

Now that a little over a week has passed Ashley was complaining that her mouth was bothering her a little bit. We figured it was because she has been a little congested but I figured why not check her mouth anyway because she said she had a loose tooth. When I looked in I found that two of her permanent molars were growing in, pushing out the baby ones and they weren't budging. That would explain her discomfort. So Tuesday morning I called the dentist to see if she could go in and have them checked out and see if we could let nature take it's course or if they needed to be pulled. Sure enough they needed to be pulled. Poor kid had to have both of them taken out but was quite the trooper. Daddy took her and said she did really well. Ashley told me that there were other kids at the dentist who were afraid so the dentist had them watch him pull Ashley's teeth and she said she didn't flinch, scream or cry - only curled her toes so the other kids couldn't see. So as a treat we took her to IHOP last night for pancakes (it also helped that they were having free pancakes so we all got a treat). So when we got home and the kids went to bed Ashley put her newly extracted teeth under her pillow for another Tooth Fairy visit.

Hopefully this will be it for a while, but we'll see. If you notice the Tooth Fairy missing again let us know.