No Match for the Tooth Fairy

We always hear about how good Santa is at navigating through storms, finding children's houses, and showing up with just the right gift.

But what about the Tooth Fairy?

Benjamin has been putting her to the test, and so far she has really come through!

Benjamin lost his first tooth in the usual way: sitting at home, wiggling it out.

 

Since then, though, he has mixed it up a bit.

His second tooth came out at the hospital, moments after he'd met his baby sister Alaina. Even with his mother recovering in the maternity ward, Ben managed to keep track of the tooth, take it home, and put it under his pillow.

 

The Tooth Fairy brought him a $5 bill. Pretty good.

For the third tooth, Ben set up an unprecedented challenge: he lost it around the fire at a Father/Son campout--in the middle of the forest with no moms around.

Not really a place you'd expect to find a Tooth Fairy, right?

Well, it turns out that not just one but several tooth fairies were fluttering around, offering Ben's daddy loonies and toonies. By morning, Ben had a pile of change under his dirty, campfire-scented pillow. All it needed was a trip through the washing machine, and it was fit for any boy's piggy bank :)



I guess Benjamin thought if the Tooth Fairy could find him there, she could find him anywhere.

Tooth #4 came out one Sunday just before church. (This doesn't sound like much of a challenge, but when you consider that Ben's parents don't shop on Sundays, you have to wonder where the perfect amount of change was going to come from!)

 

Ben woke up the next morning with a loonie and a C-3PO action figure under his pillow. Not too shabby.

Then last night, the snow storm we've been waiting for all winter arrived. And Ben lost the tooth he'd been wiggling for weeks . . . AT SCHOOL! So exciting!

But, would the Tooth Fairy be able to find her way through the storm? She doesn't have Rudolf, you know.

She did! And this time, Ben got a loonie and a Han Solo action figure.

 

The next day school was cancelled because of all the snow.



So even weather that stops the buses is no match for the Tooth Fairy.

She must be quite the lady :)