Widening the gap

(Please ignore the food all over his face- he is, after all, a little boy)

What is better than the tooth fairy coming and bringing a chunk of change and the Easter Bunny hopping in and leaving a basketful of goodies? Both of them happening on the same night!!! This very scenario happened to Taylor this weekend!!! After a couple weeks of wiggling away at his front tooth, it finally made its way out on Easter Eve- that makes five teeth that Taylor has lost. Five!

You may have noticed from previous exreme close-ups of Taylor that he had quite a gap going on between his two front teeth. For years Dave and I have laughed about and wondered how many quarters would fit between Taylor's two front teeth. With all the tooth wiggling he has been doing as of late, it has been on my mind quite a bit. Friday night it was really on my mind so out came the quarters- just exactly how many quarters can we fit between Taylor's two front teeth? The answer my friends, the answer is THREE. Three quarters. Yep. You heard me- exactly .75 cents.



And now to the Tooth Fairy. It seems that a confession may be in order. Our tooth fairy is, how do I say this? Well... a re-gifter. I know. Shame shame shame on her. Back when Taylor's first tooth came out she (and her partner in crime, Mr. Tooth Fairy) had a brilliant plan to leave a gold dollar under the pillow of each deserving, toothless child. That idea was (and still is) fantastic, except that she forgot where her stash of gold dollars went. In case you were wondering, finding a gold dollar on a dime isn't exactly a walk in the park. Fortunately for this Tooth Fairy, her most recent 6-year-old client gets so excited about his new gold coin, rather than putting it away in his piggy bank, he carries it around with him, eventually misplacing on the mantle, or in the car, or on the couch. Cha-ching! The money is usually found and put up in a place where Spencer won't eat it. And then that Tooth Fairy, in a pinch, remembers where that money was re-located and lovingly re-gifts the gold dollar to that sweet boy who has so much faith this his Tooth Fairy will in fact, deliver another gold coin under his sleepy little head. Some may call it deceitful, I prefer to call it brilliant. Popping the magic bubble of childhood floating around Taylor is most definetly not on this Tooth Fairy's agenda. Re-gifter? Can you blame her?

Okay, so it's only happened twice. And upon discussing this situation with some Tooth Fairy affiliates, who shall remain nameless, it has come to our attention a trip to a nearby Trax station just may make all my gold dollar dreams come true. Now I think about it, Trax may be where it all began anyway.