The Golden Tooth

Ethan has had a few teeth that have been slightly loose for a little bit. But he tends to wait till they are really really loose before he puts in the effort to pull them. This last week Ethan and Sam were downstairs playing. Generally speaking they get along, but on occasion they seem to butt heads about anything. This particular day was one of the later, they were having a hard time just being nice to one another. Ethan bosses Sam and Sam doesn't go for it and then they just get mad at each other. Well Ethan had just bossed Sam to the point where he had had it and so Sam punched Ethan in the mouth. Ethan was about to freak out and realized that Sam had punched his tooth right out. Ethan was so excited about his tooth being out that he didn't even get upset with Sam for hitting him. Ethan came flying up the stairs with the shrill of excitement in his voice saying Sam knocked my tooth out! Ethan just was a grinin' from ear to ear. Too bad for Sam though, we got after him anyway. Ethan was pretty stoked that night to put his tooth in his tooth pillow that his aunt Jaimi made for him and for the tooth fairy. (i recommend having a tooth pillow!) Anyway, along those same lines of loose teeth and all that. We went to Kenadie's (my brother's little girl) baby blessing on Sunday and great-grandma Priday was there. Ethan got to sit by her in sacrament meeting and showed her that he lost a tooth. Later that day i found Ethan with is tongue in the hole where his tooth once resided and he turned and asked me, "is it gold mom?" I said what are you talking about? And he told me that grandma had told him that if he put his tongue there long enough the tooth that grew in would be gold. No you have to understand this is my grandma that has never ever said a bad thing in all my life and if you ask my dad he would say that she's never said anything bad in his lifetime either. So i had a to chuckle that grandma told Ethan that. After i started thinking about it, it stirred a memory for me that i remember someone telling me the same thing when i was little. who knows, maybe it was even grandma.