so this is my ode to thanksgiving cooking. scrambled eggs and a blueberry/raspberry combo of jiffy muffin mixes. the gman thought i was martha. or he would have if he knew martha. i'm sure you all are now worried about poor us having scrambled eggs and muffins for thanksgiving. never fear though. that was only brunch. sherri invited us over for dinner. serious score and no cooking on my part. then shirley had us over for leftovers the next day. score again. our friends rock.
now the week before turkey day the gman got on my bad side. he brought home his mid-term progress report with THREE U's on it. now i know this i'm a boy and i really don't care mentality runs in my family. i have 2 brothers and several nephews who suffer from it. i guess i was thinking not MY son. but yes. my son. three u's all in sight words. i fussed at him all the way home and informed him that mommy was cutting off his cash flow at target, walmart, walgreens, etc. he sounded so humble and apologetic. but then as soon as he got home the little stinker got a paper towel from the kitchen and set to work on a wiggly tooth. he had the sucker out in an hour flat. no lie. and lucky for him the tooth fairy was somewhat amused and gave him a fiver. with that and some other loose change he'd been saving up he managed to purchase this bad boy. he was actually shaking with excitement when he carried him out to the car in his very own target back. as soon as he got buckled in he reverently pulled him out and proclaimed, "he's my FRAVit all the way to JEsus!"
i didn't actually get a picture of that gap-toothed grin, because he set to work on the next one well before mommy got shutter happy. here he is after violently ripping out the next one. i couldn't get a decent smile from him showing the most recent losses. this one made 5 gone. the two bottom middles have grown back in and it was the two flanking these that he yanked. you can see here that g's tooth fairy likes variety in her gift giving. this time around she left a movie gift card. g knew it was for the movies too without me even telling him. he doesn't know his sight words, but he somehow knows the important stuff.
but wait. there's more. you guessed it. he ripped out that other top one a couple days later and got a lego giftcard that looked mysteriously like an image from the lego site we've been frequently. seems our tooth fairy hangs out in the same places we do. guess she's cool like that. now if you're the gman you're think why stop there? monday morning he asked me when his "grinders" would come out. i told him in no uncertain terms that he was done with losing teeth for a good long while and if he pulled any more the tooth fairy would give him a citation. seriously. but hey. g's always on the lookout for a fast buck and he's obviously a professional in the tooth pulling arena. if you've got a kid with a reluctant wiggler i'm sure he'd be happy to help with any dental removals as long as he gets a cut of the tooth fairy loot.
Okay. Your kid is seriously too funny for words. It sounds like you guys have an awesome relationship!
Posted by: Hollye | December 03, 2009 at 09:47 PM
he is a cute little guy. my son is about to loose those same two teeth :)
Posted by: Heidi Sonboul | December 04, 2009 at 03:59 AM
oh my! I'm not showing this to Molly - none of her teeth have fallen out yet but she does have one wiggly one!
Posted by: Paula | December 04, 2009 at 05:39 AM
that child kills me. LOL.
Posted by: lisa truesdell | December 06, 2009 at 11:38 AM
OMG, g is such a stitch, I love it!! love that new grin, too ;-) What do U's stand for?
Posted by: Staci Taylor | December 06, 2009 at 03:31 PM
that is just hilarious! funny how motivated and concentrated they can be when it comes to something involving making money. but school work? not so much. lol!
Posted by: laura vegas | December 08, 2009 at 02:38 PM