No Tooth. No Quarter.

Riley lost her first tooth yesterday at camp.  Then she lost her lost tooth.  Ms Maggie, her camp counselor, said she looked like she was going to cry, so they wrote the tooth fairy a note.

Our friend Michele came over last night and they started talking about the lost, lost tooth.  Riley tried to explain to us that she read a book, No Tooth, No Quarter, and it very clearly explained that the tooth fairy does not care about notes, just teeth.  We tried to convince her that things have changed since the book was written and the tooth fairy is a bit more understanding these days.  It seemed to appease her, but then this morning Jason asked her if the tooth fairy left her anything under her pillow.  She told him she didn't even bother looking because she already knew the answer.  She wasn't upset that she wasn't getting anything, just very matter of fact about it.  He tried to convince her to look, but they just kept talking in circles.  Finally I told her I have read the book, and was here for the conversation with Michele, but Daddy's just asking you to look and see if maybe the tooth fairy found compassion in her heart for you and left you something anyways.  "Ok.  Mommy.  I'll go look."  Then she came running up the stairs shouting, "I have a tooth fairy dollar!"  She had to show Wyatt, "Look, I have a tooth fairy dollar!!" 

Ben, "Ohhhhhh. You pee in toilet - not the floor."

Benjamin has decided that it is time to pee in the toilet.  He went in the bathroom, took his diaper off, and tried to pee in the toilet.  Then he came back and sat down at his desk next to mine and said, "I don't have to pee in toilet."  Then he went back again.  I went with this time.  "Mommy.  I pee in toilet." Nothing happens.  "Mommy, my pee-pee's not working."  Ok.  We go back to our work at our desks.  Then he goes in the bathroom again.  I follow him and then I was asked to leave, by Benjamin.  He comes in and tells me "Mommy, I pee-pee in toilet."  and he did.  Riley and Wyatt were so excited for him they jumped up and ran to look in the toilet at the pee he didn't flush.  Then Ben told me, "Come here.  I show you."  He stands there and nothing happens.  "My pee-pee not working."  He would then sit for a minute and run to the bathroom.  This went on for about 20 minutes.  And the really good thing is he never peed on the floor!