Well, the Corn Puppy lost a tooth yesterday, just as I’d predicted the night before. We were too wimpy to pull it out when we should have; it came out with lunch at school.
So we left the Tooth Fairy a nice note explaining the situation and hoped for the best. I guess her best, at 50 cents, was not good enough. The Corn Puppy questioned her accuracy, in quite a gentle voice, this morning – “Doesn’t the Tooth Fairy give a dollar to children?”
Errr… I had to think quickly. “Well, the Tooth Fairy has been hit pretty hard by this recession and the only thing she invests in is teeth and the tooth market is not doing very well right now. AND I bet you when the economy picks up she’ll probably pay you interest on that tooth!”
By the time I’d finished, she was kind of disinterested in the subject. WHEW. Guess I need to set aside a tooth fund so as to avoid these stumbling blocks in the future…