Perhaps you've seen a fairy flitting between the snowflakes.  OOhh, was that one dodging the icicles?  There has been evidence of one breaking into our home this weekend, a welcome intruder in from the cold to reward and mark the passing of time.

Yes, the Tooth Fairy has been cordially invited not once, but twice into our home this weekend.

Our 5 (AND A HALF!) year old daughter has had 2 wiggly teeth for about a week now.  The bottom two, middle.  Upon closer inspection, there are permanent teeth poking up behind them already, so I suppose it is time for the baby ones, who have done their service so well, to be moving on.  And to think I can't recall if they were the first to arrive on the scene....you think I would since she is my first child and everything she's ever done should be permanently embossed on my frontal lobe.  That and the fact I nursed her, and well, ouch, and we'll leave it at that.

Yesterday during a particularly exciting indoor football exhibition (move the coffee table, there's no quarter, it's full on tackle), the first tooth popped out.  A little tear, a bit of blood, and lots of excitement and declarations of the $10 she would be receiving.  ($10, seriously??)  Seeing that little gap in her otherwise Big Girl visage is bittersweet for mama. 

It was terribly cold last night, here in wintry March Central PA.  But the Tooth Fairy responsible for this region persevered, perhaps you saw her fluttering past on her way here?  (Our daughter insists the T.F. is a HER.  Makes sense to me, since i have a hard time getting cash out of men.)  The Tooth Fairy brought $5; despite the looming recession, a first tooth is a Big Deal, and not to be taken lightly.

Today, with its still bitter temperatures and still eager to run children, yielded another indoor football extravaganza.  Arena football has nothing on the Hogan Living Room.  This game brought the same result, the other wiggly tooth popped out, right on the floor, leaving an even bigger gap in the mouth of my firstborn and more excitement about another visit from the Tooth Fairy.  Will she bring another $5?  Probably not, as truly, the second tooth is just not as amazing as the first. 

So, if as you walk your dog this night, or look at the stars above before you rest your head on a pillow, and you see one wink, or see a flash go by....no need to worry.  It's the Tooth Fairy, fluttering on her way to my house, to leave my baby a small token (no really, this time it's a buck) and take her teeny tooth as her jewel.