Joshua's Tooth Saga continues...

Well, the Tooth Fairy was called upon again this week. It happened this time at Costco while Joshua was biting into a hotdog. All of a sudden, he exclaimed, "I just lost my tooth!" Thank God he didn't swallow it! So, I made a big deal of it. Joshua asked me to call Daddy, which we did. It is one of the front teeth, so it is highly visibly missing, yet he looks so cute, just like a little jack o'lantern! The next morning as I was sitting in the study before anyone else had awakened, I remembered that I had forgotten to take the tooth from the carefully-placed envelope and put money under his pillow instead. Panic set in. I ran upstairs and was saved by the bell. He was sleeping in Zachary's crib (a new habit he has!), so I was able to sneak in quietly and do the deed in his own empty bed, pillow just waiting to be picked up. When he woke up, I asked him if the Tooth Fairy came. He was concerned that he had only been given $3, instead of the $5 that he was expecting (since it was his 5th tooth...this is a game I started with him...$1 per tooth). I told him that the Tooth Fairy must have run out of money. Benjamin almost spilled the beans this time. Sometime in the last 3 months or so, he figured out that the Tooth Fairy was Truly Yours. He mentioned it, but Joshua did not hear him (THANKS BE TO GOD!) Wow, is our first son so grown up at 9 yrs old that he already knows the truth about this charade?! That means that in the very near future, Jon and I are going to be mere mortals rather than the hero and heroine we once were to him!!! Anyhow, in the end, all is well with the Tooth Tales... Let the saga continue...