From the Mouth of Mabes

In the past couple of weeks Mabes has lost 2 teeth -- 1 from the top, 1 from the bottom -- while at school.  Apparently, this is the height of cool.  (We're trying to get her to describe it with, "This is pretty boss!" or "Man, this is cherry!" but she hasn't taken to it yet.)  The most recent tooth fell out Friday during math and her teacher was able to turn it into a handy object lesson in subtraction.

 (Pictures taken around bedtime, thus the slightly more disheveled look.)

One of the more unfortunate parts of this experience was that the Tooth Fairy must have had a packed schedule after the second tooth because she forgot to make a financial transaction in exchange for the tooth that night.  It is quite a pitiful and somewhat wrenching sight to see your child return from her room one morning holding the ziploc bag with her tooth in it and then, with a solemn face and voice, asking why the Tooth Fairy didn't come visit her that night.  :-O

Schedules were amended and the situation was corrected the following the night.  She was upset after the first tooth fell out recently when she noticed that the dollar bill she received had a small tear in it, so agents of the Tooth Fairy made sure this was not the case this time around.  But Mabes noticed a blue mark on the back edge of the dollar bill to which she commented seriously, "I think this dollar bill was meant for someone who lost a bluetooth."  I love the technology vocabulary that she possesses at such a young age -- even if it is sometimes misplaced.

In other Mabes-isms, we were in church a few weeks ago and the speaker in sacrament meeting mentioned that he grew up in Alaska.  I pointed this to Mabes who had been coloring or reading or something to try to get her to pay some level of attention.

She thought that was very cool and -- of course -- had a comment:  "Wow, he must have seen a lot of -- "  Hold that thought.  How would you expect that sentence to be completed?  What would someone in Alaska probably have seen a lot of?  I was expecting "snow" but I could also understand someone in Alaska seeing a lot of water, polar bears, moose, mountains, igloos or even big trucks. 

But, no, that is not what runs, skips, hops and twirls through the mind of Mabes.  She was impressed by his home state and said, "Wow, he must have seen a lot of fish sticks."  Yes, he must have.