Can you tell what’s changed?

Friends:

OK, take a quick glance at the two pictures below and see if you can figure out what’s different between them.

If you said: “Daniel seems to have lost his shirt!” then you are the master of the obvious. Congratulations.

Yes, we lost our first tooth last night, and we’re VERY excited about this. It had been loose for a little over a week, and was gradually getting wiggled looser and looser until, finally, it came out after dinner last night.

Under the pillow it went, and this morning, Daniel came into our room with a disappointed look: “The tooth fairy didn’t come…” which was more than a little surprising to the tooth fairy. So we convinced him to go back and look, and sure enough, he returned with the $1 coin held high.

There’s apparently some bragging rights at Kindergarten associated with losing your first tooth. It’s a status thing of sorts.

By dinner tonight, he was scheming to see if he could trick the tooth fairy into giving him more money by putting pictures of teeth under his pillow. His cleverness was admired, but he was cautioned that the tooth fairy might not be amused by being tricked… Ultimately, he decided it wasn’t worth risking the next $19 in semi-guaranteed funds on a get-rich-quick scheme.

The first photo, by the way, is Daniel’s official kindergarten picture. We got extras to share. The original has nicer colors than this scan, and if you’re reading this, you’re most likely going to be getting a copy in the mail anyway, so I wouldn’t bother trying to print it.

It’s another evening of multiple blog postings. Next up – a set of video that I’ve really been wanting to share.

Love, ADRE.