The Tooth Fairy Cometh

THE TOOTH FAIRY COMETH

Yesterday my wife and I went down to Fishers, IN. to pick up our grandson, who is six, from the school bus when he arrived.

We waited for with many mothers and younger siblings.  When the bus arrived, our grandson climbed down from the bus, holding a Kleenex to his mouth. He ran up to us and said “I pulled a tooth today!!!”, and sure enough in his lower set of baby teeth there, right in front,  was a gaping hole. He was so proud.

As we walked the two blocks to his home, he was all excited,  jabbering and telling us all about it.  He was pulling on his tooth, twisting it, and it fell out.  His teacher took him to the school nurse, they washed his mouth off and gave him a Kleenex to hold on his mouth.  They also gave him an envelope to hold the tooth.

As soon as we got into the house, he called his dad and told him what he had done. Then we had to get a look at the tooth. He emptied his back pack, then shook it out.  There was no envelope, no saved tooth.

He threw down the back pack yelling, “I’ve lost it!!” and fell to the floor wailing.  His heart was broken, his precious tooth was gone.  My wife and I examined the back pack carefully, shook it again and a small, white, envelope fell out.  Our grandson saw it and immediately said “There it is!”  and sure enough, that small, cherished baby tooth was there.  We quickly said “Lets put it where we can find it”.

We took the tooth and envelope and put them on the counter in the kitchen, laying the tooth on top of the white envelope.  Our son then called Julie (his wife) to give her the exciting news.

The loss of the tooth did not hamper the grandson’s eating ability.  After dinner, my wife and I left for home.  Shortly after we arrived home,our son called and asked if we had seen the tooth.  We told him where we had last seen it.  Unbelievably, the elusive tooth was missing again.

About two hours later, the son called again and the fleeting, evasive baby tooth was again found.  He had thought that the tooth might have fallen to the floor when he picked up the white envelope to throw it away.  He had gotten down on his hands and knees, using the flash light on his cell phone had searched the floor and miraculously found that baby tooth.  He, Julie and the tooth fairy all rejoiced and celebrated.  Now they just had to keep an eye on that wandering tooth until morning.

 

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