Another one bites the dust

Elizabeth has been working on this tooth for a while, and sure enough the other night while eating pizza out it came. I have never seen a kid so proud and excited to have teeth fall out of her head. This is the 3rd one in 5 months. However, this was the first time that we had any issues with the tooth fairy. As standard procedure, she put her tooth in her special tooth holder and placed it under her pillow before going to sleep. However, it seemed the tooth fairy fell asleep on the job and didn't pay a visit that night. We attributed the tooth fairy's delinquency to the fact that Elizabeth did not sleep in her bed like she was told. Instead, she crawled down the her ladder (tooth and all) to sleep in her sister's bed. Therefore, the tooth fairy did not know where to find her tooth. Elizabeth then wanted to take her tooth to school to show her friends. I did not endorse this course of action and asked her to leave her tooth at home. That did not prevent her from sneaking off to school with it anyway. When Ryan dropped the kids off at school, Elizabeth immediately produced her tooth holder to show all her classmates her tooth only to discover no tooth. Of course, drama and hysterics ensued. The remedy to the missing tooth was to draw a tooth and write a note for the tooth fairy that night. She also made sure she slept in her own bed. Fortunately, the tooth fairy understood the circumstances and left $1 and piece of candy in exchange for the note and drawing. Wait, the story doesn't end there. The next day, Elizabeth found her missing tooth in the living room and felt it was very important to get the tooth to the tooth fairy. She wrote another note, explaining that she found her tooth and she even reminded the tooth fairy that she didn't owe her another present, which Ryan and I found very honest of her. So now, all teeth are with the tooth fairy and all children are properly compensated. The end.