Can he make it 3 in a row?

So, Saturday lunch seems to be the time for losing teeth! Yep, he did it again this past Saturday, another bottom tooth missing!

I say missing because we didn't realize the tooth had come out until about 3 pm when I was talking to him about something totally unrelated and said "Where's your tooth?" It was extremely loose in the morning and then we had pasta at Carraba's for lunch (Matt's fave). Since the tooth was there before lunch, gone by 3 pm, and he doesn't remember anything about the tooth in between....we have to assume that.....you guessed it, he swallowed it!

Here's the note to the tooth fairy:

On an educational note, his first tooth was in the Twinkle Toof holder so we had to take it out Saturday night so the tooth fairy could come again. I didn't have a great place to put it, so I sat it on our dresser so we could get the kids to bed. The tooth fairy came overnight, but Sunday morning was cleaning day. I saw the tooth on the dresser and thought to myself "I really need to get a ziploc to put it in before we loose it". As I was cleaning in Matt's room, I noticed a ziploc on the floor with his name on it...PERFECT! I took it in to our room, dropped the tooth in, and back to his room I go to finish cleaning, carrying the baggie with me.

When I got to his room, something made me look at the bag to verify the tooth was inside. To my horror, I look down to see both ends of the ziploc had been cut off like someone was going to use it to frost a cake. #@!$ ! I look down at the carpet between Matt's room and our room. While it is only about 20 feet, it might as well have been the Pacific ocean since the carpet and the tooth are exactly the same color! I got down on my knees and searched by hand right where I put the tooth in the bag hoping it fell straight out, no luck.

I then decide to rev up the new bagless vacuum we got after the other one died the day before we left on vacation. I emptied the container and started vacuuming right inside the door to our room. Within 6 inches, I heard a click in the container and shut off the vacuum just in case. Woohoo, can you believe I found it on the first sweep?

It was only when I pulled the container off the vacuum that I realized what a rollercoaster of fortune and misfortune I was experiencing. The tooth was split in half right down the middle, it would never be the same, his first tooth, I had just dropped 20 levels on the scale of mommyhood. How would I explain this one?

Tell the truth MOM! So I did and approached it with an educational slant. Where else were they going to see the inside of a tooth? Matthew was not happy, but understood and now he has two (half) teeth to make up for the one he swallowed.

The next tooth that comes out is going to be bronzed and wall mounted within 15 minutes. Let's see if he goes 3 for 3 this weekend (it is a possibility) :-)