No. 3 woke up this morning with a quarter clutched in his fist as he showed it to me exuberantly: “Look! The tooth fairy came!” He pulled his first tooth yesterday evening, and that child fell asleep on his stomach with his arms wrapped under his pillow and holding the tooth-enclosed baggie with a death grip in both hands.

No kidding – he was snoring and soundly sleeping, and I had to go after that rascally tooth from both sides of the bed, gingerly trying to reach under his pillow to pull the baggie out of his hands without waking him up. I felt like The Tooth Fairy in all of his clumsy hockey gear!

The tooth fairy was out of dollar bills, so she left five quarters. When he showed me that one quarter this morning, I was happy for him but asked, “Are you sure that’s all?” and he replied, “Well, it was only one tooth.” LOL – glad to see that his expectations are more realistic now; last night, he proposed that the tooth fairy might leave him a thousand dollars! In his dreams!! I encouraged him to look some more, and lo & behold, he found the other quarters.

Look out, world – there’s one happy first grader on the loose!  🙂