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Goodbye Lower Left Lateral Incisor

As it was dangerously loose this evening, and as it was Evelyn's bedtime, Jilly removed Evelyn's lower left incisor to make it safe for her to go to bed; and she did it with Evelyn making no more than a slight 'Ow!'. She is so brave, our liddle girl. Of course, she immediately made sure the tooth was nice and clean for the tooth fairy, wrapping it in clean tissue ready for placing beneath her pillow tonight.

And this has reminded me to write about a further tooth related episode from a few nights ago.

Earlier this week, Evelyn claimed that a tooth had come loose from the back of her mouth (not the one which was visibly loose at the front of her mouth, of course). She held a tissue over her head, claiming that it contained the tooth, and that she was going to place it beneath her pillow - that night - for the tooth fairy. It was transparently clear that Evelyn's tooth hadn't fallen out, and that this was a fraudulent plot to con money out of an unsuspecting tooth fairy).

The next morning, Jilly discovered that Evelyn had fashioned a rudimentary tooth out of the apple she'd been eating and placed that in the tissue (does she think the tooth fairy was born yesterday?). Asking Evelyn if she thought she could trick the tooth fairy into leaving her some money, Evelyn was 'mortified', and clearly worried that the tooth fairy would no longer leave her money for her teeth.

"Don't tell her, mummy! Evelyn pleaded, whereupon, Jilly explained that the tooth fairy must already know that she'd tried to trick her, as she'd left the apple 'tooth' behind, and NO money.

Evelyn's gone to bed quite confident, tonight, that the tooth fairy wil be along to exchange her tooth for a shiny coin, conveniently forgetting her recent attempt at fraud!

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