Toothfairy

Last week I had to run some errands in the evening. Dave stayed with the kids, I can’t remember what I did but by the time I got home, it was very late (around 10 pm) so I of course expected the kids to be in bed. As I walk up the stairs in the dark I could hear Ethan’s voice and Dave a little startled to see me. This is the dialogue we had:
“Why is Ethan awake? Its sooooo late!!!
Dave quickly and loudly said “Ethan lost a tooth!!!”
Whaaaaat? I was totally unprepared for something like this. After all, it had only been six months ago that I asked the dentist when to expect some teeth falling out and he clearly said between 7 and 8 years old. Dave, then proceeded to tell me how during the dental flossing routine he noticed Ethan already had two front lower teeth out and behind the two baby teeth which were already loose. They were hurting Ethan a little bit. So Dave decided it was time to pull at least one of them out. Ethan was nervous and told him he would prefer to be taken to the dentist to get the tooth out. “Nonsense!” Said Dave, “I will pull it out!” So after some tugging the tooth came out, Ethan cried a little and Heidi cried a lot. Why did Heidi cry a lot? Because she was not the one the tooth fairy would leave any money to! Needless to say, Dave was waaaay too excited about this entire tooth episode. Then the debate started as to how much money to leave, should we leave a note, a treat, etc… but then came the cultural clash. There is no tooth fairy in Peru, there is a tooth mouse and his name is Miguel. But Dave had already talked about some tooth fairy name Glenda, grrrrrr!
Ethan got $2 in quarters along with a nice note from the tooth fairy and some travel size toothpaste, mouthwash and dental floss. He was very happy and Heidi was very sad.