ode to the tooth fairy

On Friday night (I was wondering what I was going to post about, thanks Kace for coming to the rescue!) Kace said how loose his tooth was. I went and felt it and sure enough it was really loose. He said he wanted to pull it out himself. So he wiggled and wiggled until it came out! He was so proud of it and whoever I was talking to on the phone he ran over and asked if I had told them about him pulling out his tooth!

He was so excited to put it under his pillow for the tooth fairy to come and leave him money. I asked him if (since we were coming home late from Nate's dad's bday party) he was asleep when we got home if he wanted me to put it under his pillow for him OR if he wanted to do it himself then next night. He informed me that he would WAKE UP and do it himself. Sure enough, Nate carried him upstairs that night, 5 minutes later here comes Kace in asking where his tooth was. So he put it under his pillow.

I asked Nate if by chance he woke up in the night if he would PLEASE go play tooth fairy. He said sure, but I woke up (Ty woke me up, dang it!) and grabbed a handful of change (hoping there was something silver in there. I went to put it under his pillow and I COULDN'T FIND THE TOOTH! He wasn't even sleeping on his pillow so I picked it up and felt all around. NO TOOTH!

The next day I was outside and when I came back in Kace had just woken up and ran to me and said (matter of factly), "$1.36." WOW!! He was so excited! But then he said, "Um, the tooth fairy didn't get my tooth though, it's still there." CRAP! So I made up some story about how maybe the tooth fairy had already collected enough teeth for that night and didn't need his this time, but he should put it under his pillow the next night because she might come again.

All of this reminded me of when I lost my first tooth. (I told Kace the story!) I was so excited and my mom was across the street at my cousins for a baby shower or something like that, so I clutched my tooth in my hand and ran over to show her. Sure enough right in their gravel driveway I dropped it and was DEVASTATED! I looked and looked in those blasted rocks, but never found it. Another memory I have about losing teeth is that we would go next door to my grandparents and my grandpa Andrew would give me 50 cents for every tooth. Good times! :)

Poor little boy

Poor Ty has had a very rough week. Last week he and Kace woke up throwing up a couple of days before Thanksgiving. He STILL is having a hard time getting over it (he actually threw up at the church at tithing settlement :( . He doesn't have a fever or anything and seems to do this every time he is getting a tooth, so this had better be the last of the teeth. Then on Sunday he and Kace bonked heads and it resulted in this fat lip.

Then, for some reason the poor kid has been plagued with a wart virus. He gets them ALL OVER his body. They are just tiny little bumps, but they are so contagious and spread like CRAZY! So we have gone a couple of times to get them removed. The nurse puts on this numbing stuff on his skin and puts some tape over it. We have to wait an hour for the stuff to numb his skin, so we went to see A. Jessica at work. She gave Ty a sucker, actually two, to make it feel better. He gladly took them. More like grabbed them, but he did give her a kiss as payment, so that was nice.

Then we wait an hour, go back to the doctor's and he scraps off the warts with this sharp little tool. TY HATES IT! He screams, kicks, hits, etc etc. The nurse wasn't very nice this time, she said (in her most annoying voice), "Do you just cry and whine about everything, little guy?" I wanted to ask her if she wouldn't cry and fight if she was getting things scraped off of her body, but I didn't. Then the doc hurries and puts band-aids over all the little holes. He said there were probably 50-60 warts that he scraped and he is sure he missed some (great, so we get to do this AGAIN!).

My poor little boy.

PS Maybe in a few more days I can post something on BYU, I might be starting to get over it by then. THOSE LOSERS! How in the world do you throw 5 INT in one game, FUMBLE once and have tons of passes knocked down.....well maybe I'm not ready yet.