Lost and found

If I ever wondered just how much Sydney is learning from the cartoon Diego, I got a quick lesson while touring the zoo with the kids last Saturday.

Wait!

We interupt this regularly scheduled blogpost with some exciting news! AJ lost another tooth. And this time he really lost the tooth from his mouth, while not losing it all together.


Got it? This is pretty exciting.

For those of you keeping score, this is the first tooth that's really come out AND that hasn't been lost forever. Tooth #1, you may recall, came out at daycare, or so we thought, and was apparently swallowed by AJ during naptime, never to be seen again. Tooth #2 came out just a couple weeks later, this time during lunch at school, only to be lost in the lunchroom, never to be seen again.

It was right after this that Aunt Sarah took a look in AJ's month and figured out that only one tooth was really missing. That tooth's permanent counterpart, incidentally, is about halfway grown back. It's nearest neighbor on the bottom row, which has been loose for quite some time, is what's now lying in wait beneath AJ's pillow, in hopes that the tooth fairy will think it's worth another dollar.

As we snuggled at bedtime, AJ asked how the toothfairy can get in our house at night.

"I'm not sure," I answered. "Do you think it uses pixie dust?"

"But how does the toothfairy fly?" AJ continued pressing.

Not wanting to ruin the fantasy quite yet, I turned it back to him. "I don't know, what do you think?"

"Because it has wings," AJ answered simply.

Of course. Why didn't I think of that?