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the second tooth

mimi's second tooth fell out tonight.  her bottom front/right incisor.  her top left incisor is also quite loose.  when that one falls out she will look like a little jack o' lantern.  :)  she was playing at a friend's house, roughhousing a bit and she banged her mouth and shortly afterwards came to me and said that she bumped her tooth, which had been extremely wiggly these past few days and very close to falling out, while she was playing and it felt funny.  i said, well give it a little tug and see what happens. she grabbed it and gave it a little pull and out it popped without any resistance. 

we carefully packed it away and put it in her tooth holder when we got home and she ever so precisely, set it under her pillow.  she had a lot more questions about the tooth fairy this time around.  how does she get in?  how does she know that my tooth fell out?  what does she look like?  and on and on.  of course i dont know any of these answers, so i just say, "i dont know.  no one has seen her before.  what do you think...?" and of course she has an answer for everything. 

i waited for her to sleep before i went in to make the exchange.  as i sneak in to switch out the tooth for money, i have to chuckle at myself at how simple it is to hoodwink a five year old.  and i kind of wished someone would do something like that for adults.  like how nice would it be to be visited by the shoe fairy whenever a new gray hair pops up on my head and i just have to go to bed and in the morning when i wake up, i'd find a pair of new ugg boots under my pillow.  that would be really really cool.

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