Attention: Toothfairy!

So today at lunch Goober lost his very first tooth! So tonight while he sleeps the tooth fairy gets to come and take his tooth from under his pillow as he sleeps and leave some moola! (I'm so glad he didn't swallow it... how does the tooth fairy get it and give the cashola then?)

When I was little the tooth fairy came to our house when I lost teeth. It was fun to get money for pretty much nothing :)

At one point my family moved from one state to another... I was FREAKED out that the tooth fairy wouldn't be able to find me. You would have thought I would be concerned about Santa, too right? Apparently not. Apparently he was magical enough to find me no matter what. But the tooth fairy? Nope. She must not have seemed very capable... maybe it was her size... I dunno, I don't remember much about it... except the fact that my mom got inventive and showed me where the tooth fairy lived.

That's right! The tooth fairy lived in the very town that we just moved to! Amazing! She had kind of a cool house too... right next to a low bridge downtown, in a little castle like building (that is actually a pump house for making sure aforementioned bridge doesn't flood). Very fairytale like! Alright, well apparently she could find me cause she lived so close!

So this makes me curious... how did your family do the tooth fairy growing up?

Little Li's Blessing

Yesterday at church Jer blessed Little Li. In our religion this means giving the baby a name on the records of the church and in life and pronouncing a blessing on them to help them throughout their lives. We do not believe in baptizing infants and wait until the child is old enough to know right from wrong (age 8) before we give them the choice of if they want to be baptised or not.

The little blanket and jacket that he is wearing are the same ones that I was blessed in by my great grandfather as an infant. Both of Li's siblings and most of his cousins on my side of the family were also blessed in the same outfit.