Thursday, June 19, 2008

Tooth fairy incident

Tooth fairy started visiting our family a couple of months ago. Recently Ivor's front teeth got loose. It took a while but the first one finally came out. Chris was in the bathroom with Ivor. Two of them were above the sink working on the tooth in front of the bathroom mirror. Suddenly there was commotion, Ivor ran out with blood dripping out of his mouth (looked awful) looking quite upset, and Chris trekked out right after him. Apparently in the excitement of the situation Ivor knocked Chris' hand and the tooth went down the drain. Ivor was visibly upset because tooth fairy would be unable to fulfill her duties. He went as far as wanting to block the bathroom door so nobody would accidentally run the water in the sink and wash his tooth away. It took a few minutes to stop the bleeding and calm him down. We tried to reassure him that all would be OK but he was inconsolable.

Kids finally went to bed and two tooth fairies had to come out at midnight and fiddle with the drain. After much trouble, tooth fairy daddy managed to undo the drain and pull the priceless tooth out and it was magically returned to the boy along with some money that night. Unfortunately, now we can't tighten the drain back so we'll have to call the plumber for help. That’ll be one expensive tooth. In the meantime, a plastic bowl is catching dripping water under the sink while a boy, oblivious to all the trouble others go through for him, happily checks out his toothless grin in the mirror above.

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