Tooth Mishaps!

On Saturday Hayden lost his third tooth. Can you believe it? This is what he looks like now... His bottom two teeth are coming up and he just lost the tooth on top (where he has his tongue sticking through)

After I pulled Hayden's tooth Chad put it in a snack-sized Ziploc bag and laid it on the counter in the kitchen. I never saw it and didn't think another thing of it until it was time for bed.

In the few hours before bedtime I was standing at the counter filling 40 snack-sized Ziploc bags with trail mix for our Cactus Canyon Vacation Bible School. They are for the VBS workers and say "Thanks for riding the trail with us!" Here is a picture (sorry it is blurry)...

When bed time rolled around this was how the conversation went between me and Chad:

Me: We need to get Hayden's tooth so the Tooth Fairy will come tonight.
Chad: It is on the counter around your purse.
Me: Okay (me looking for it).
Me: I don't see it.
Chad: (Coming in the kitchen.) I laid it right here.
Me: What did you put it in?
Chad: A snack-sized ziplock bag.
Me: Oh, no. (realizing what has probably happened)
Chad: You don't think it could be in the trash? (as he is digging through the trash)
Me: No, I'm pretty sure it is with the trail mix in one of the 40 Ziploc bags.

So...without opening them up we did a scan with our eyes to find the trail mix with a tooth in it. Chad found it on our second look through. Praise God!

I never realized how much broken off peanuts can look like baby teeth. Thankfully it was found before one of our church members bit onto Hayden's tooth (ouch and gross)!

Parenting Lesson #546

Clue your husband (the sweet man who takes our trash to the dump daily) in when you're trying to teach the kids a lesson...

When you get tough on your kids and tell them, "Clean up the playroom or we're putting all your toys in the trash," and then you follow through only to put the toy trash (that was put in a black trash bag like any other trash we have) in the same place the real trash goes, don't be surprised when it is gone just like the other trash.

Oh well, maybe some kids in need will find some really great toys or somebody is gonna making a killing on Ebay.

Pockets in little boy's pants...

Should they really put pockets on little boy's pants? I mean, it might look a little weird but we would get used to it.

Right now, at 10:43pm, I am washing a load of clothes for the 3rd time because Hayden had a blue ink pad in his pocket. Fortunately, it only got on 4 things but unfortunately one of the things was one of Chad's new and really nice dress shirts.

We have found a lot of things in Hayden's pockets...crayons, gum, paper, rocks, money, little plastic toys, etc. This has to be the worst!

I guess this momma better get used to checking pockets since my little boys like to put things in their pockets.