That was not an orzo!

For a week or so Giulia'd been complaining about her loose top tooth. On Wednesday, while eating orzos, she complained that she had bitten too hard. I turned to look and her mouth was covered in blood - I told her she needed to be careful because she was biting into her tooth. I asked her to get up to take her to get cleaned up. She started shouting that her tooth was missing - I said, "it can't be missing, it was there a second ago - Open Up!" I looked through the bloody mess in her mouth and it was gone!

"Giulia, you swallowed your tooth!"
"No I didn't"
"Yes you did!"
"No, I only swallowed my orzo"
"No Giulia, you had no orzos in your mouth, that was your tooth!"
"Oh, I thought I had an orzo stuck on my tooth"
"That was your tooth - you swallowed it!"

So - I explained the Tooth Fairy process all over again and I explained the digestive system a little bit --- "No tooth, no Tooth Fairy - that's how it works! Here's what we do - Everything you eat comes out the other end. It takes a day or two but it comes out. The only way it won't come out whole is if your tummy acids digest it - but since you poop out corn whole I think your tooth is safe"



Luckily yesterday there was no school (Rosh Hashanah) so when she had to go poop she promptly called me to assist her. She pooped in a pan - the plan was for her to use to craft sticks to look through. But man, out of any day to stink and poop like a rock, this was the day! I had to assist in the process due to the complications - we spent half hour spraying air freshener and cutting the poop apart.....NO FREAKING TOOTH!

This morning I warned her 'NO POOPS IN SCHOOL" - she went to school and I went to the office. I picked her up at 3pm and she promply reported she had not pooped in school. I went back to the office and upon my return she announced she had pooped and left the artwork for me since once again it was too tough for her to maneuver through (although it looked like she had tried). After 40 minutes - YES 40 minutes when we were giving up hope - I started telling her she may just have to write a letter to the Tooth Fairy explaining what happened and asking her what sacrifice she needed to make in replacement for her tooth - then it happened, we struck gold - it was a piece of poop that would not cut to the bottom, it was the tooth and not another piece of corn.

We grabbed the bottle of bleach and poured half of it over the tooth, then we took daddy's toothbrush and cleaned it very nicely for the Tooth Fairy (just kidding daddy, we used your shaving machine cleaning brush instead)