Bizarre Tooth Caper

Abby finally got her loose top tooth to come out. That makes two lost. She was the second kid in her class to lose a tooth since school started. Some weird intrigue went on in her head as all this played out last night. She went to bed about 8 and, because we’ve been cracking down on her going to sleep as soon as possible, we didn’t hear from her for a long time. Finally about 10:30 she called out that she needed to go to the bathroom. Gina gets up and sees her to the bathroom and back to bed. Cut to this morning and she wakes up and declares her tooth free of the gum shackles that had imprisoned it for about 4 and a half years. There’s blood all over part of her sheet. After a long interrogation about just when she pulled the tooth, it turns out she had pulled the thing before she even got up to go to the bathroom. She didn’t tell Gina about it, she said, because she didn’t want us to be mad that she pulled her tooth instead of going to sleep. She also said she wanted to make sure the tooth fairy didn’t know about it until she could spend some time playing with the tooth. She said the tooth fairy came in her room in the night but she held the tooth tight in her fist and the tooth fairy couldn’t see between her fingers to where the tooth was. The tooth fairy left soon after.