Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Enough teeth for an airline ticket?

Ruby lost her 7th tooth yesterday. Yes, my 4-year-old daughter has lost seven teeth and has two fully grown-in permanent teeth. She lost two of the teeth in the past week, and she is all over the idea of leaving your tooth under the pillow and the next morning money is there! She gets wildly excited in the morning when she pulls out...a quarter (yes, the tooth fairy that visits Peculiar is cheap). So this morning's dialogue...

Ruby: Mommy, mommy look money (holding up the bag with a quarter in it)!

Me: Wow you got money! Are you excited (duh)?

Ruby: Yes mommy. Put it in piggy bag (think she meant bank). Save lotta, lotta money. Cost lotta money go airplane to Africa.

Me: Ooooh. Are you saving your money to visit Africa?

Daddy: Do you have enough teeth for that? (Glancing at Elizabeth) Elizabeth has a lot of teeth. (Very funny Daddy. She be wrestling the teeth out of Elizabeth's mouth.)

Me: What would you want to do in Africa?

Ruby: See people. See my Africa mommy, my other Africa mommy (yes, there are two she talks about), see Netsanet, Sara, and Mikyias.

Me: Well, Netsanet, Sara, and Mikyias live in America now, but we will go visit Africa again someday.

Ruby: OK, mommy! (Smiling and happy, dashes off to the bathroom.)

2 comments:

Rebecca said...

Holy smokes....7 teeth already? Good thing we have a while to get ready for that...we're still broke! :)

Linda Story Runnebaum said...

I can't believe she's lost 7 already. Michael is 7 and just lost his 5th one on Christmas Eve. He thought that was pretty cool. Santa AND the Tooth Fairy visiting him in one night. Wow!