Right or wrong, we believe in the Tooth Fairy in our house. (And Santa Claus and The Easter Bunny… you get the picture.) Monday afternoon, Christopher lost a tooth. He put it under his pillow and woke up the next day with a crisp dollar bill, tooth gone.

Two days later, he lost another tooth.  He pulled it out Wednesday morning as soon as he woke up. He was very excited that the Tooth Fairy was going to come see him again so soon! He was so excited that he jumped up, got ready for school only to realize about fifteen minutes later that he couldn’t find the tooth he had just pulled. We searched frantically until the bus arrived with no luck.

Before he went to bed Wednesday night, we looked again but couldn’t find it. So, we wrote the tooth fairy a note instead. She was kind enough to give him the dollar and take the note. But, last night, we found the missing tooth! Jim, Christopher and I were in our bedroom discussing whether or not the Tooth Fairy would come back that night to get the tooth and whether or not she would leave another dollar. The answer, of course, was yes, she would give him another dollar now that he found his tooth.

Jim was looking around the top of his dresser for an envelope or baggie to put the tooth in to keep it safe. He picks up the plastic baggie containing the tooth Christopher had pulled Monday and says to Christopher, “Here, we can just put it in this bag with your other tooth.” I immediately turned to Jim with a look of horror on my face, waiting for Christopher to catch on. Jim quickly realized his error, eyes wide and waiting for the fallout.

Christopher ran over, then stopped in his tracks and said, “Wait a minute. Where did that tooth come from?”

But that Jim Brett is quick. While having had a momentary lapse of sense, he came up with an excuse. He looked back to his dresser, hid the bag quickly, turned back to Christopher and said, “I’m so crazy! I don’t have your other tooth! The Tooth Fairy took it. I saw a piece of lint that looked like a tooth. But I was wrong. Let’s go downstairs and get a fresh baggie with no lint in it to keep your tooth in so it’s nice and fresh for the Tooth Fairy.”

Christopher looked doubtful for a minute but it appears we got away with it… this time. He certainly wasn’t questioning it when he awoke to find another dollar under his pillow this morning.