Nov 2009, lost tooth:

Lost tooth : Chloe lost a 4th tooth, this one on the bottom next to the center 2 and on the opposite side as the big gap from one she lost on the top. Casey told her that her smile looked like a jack-o-lantern and she thought that was funny. The next morning when she woke up, the tooth was still under her pillow and there was no present from the Tooth Fairy. It was in the middle of the nor’easter so I suggested that perhaps the Tooth Fairy had been rained out. Chloe hung her head and cried softly while she got ready for school. I felt terrible. While she was at school I did an internet search to see if other children had experienced a tardy Tooth Fairy. It turns out it is quite common. Apparently she has lots of problems from not being able to carry enough money in one night, to conflicting flight patterns, to delays because of the new TSA regulations. Some of the children even received notes from the Tooth Fairy explaining the cause of the delay. When Chloe got home I told her what I’d learned “from the computer” and Chloe said “how does the computer know?” I explained that other moms had written about what had happened to their children and written it in places on the internet that I found. She was very excited that she might get a note from the Tooth Fairy so she decided to write her own note to the Tooth Fairy. The next morning Chloe’s note and tooth were gone and in their place was a note from the Tooth Fairy in a curly purple font and a ring with a jeweled butterfly on it. The note explained that children all over the world lose their teeth and that on the night Chloe lost her tooth more children than usual also lost teeth. The Tooth Fairy started with the kids who lost their teeth earliest in the day, but since Chloe lost her tooth at dinner time, the Tooth Fairy was unable to get to her before sunrise. Chloe exclaimed “The Tooth Fairy knows my name!” and Alex exclaimed, “The Tooth Fairy IS real!” and all was well in the Phelps household again.