Super Michael turned 6 years old back in August and up till now has not lost any teeth.  We were starting to wonder if something was wrong and we had even talked to a dentist about it and he calmed us down by telling us that it's perfectly normal to have not lost any teeth as of yet.

Well, over the past month he's lost both bottom middle teeth and it really does change how your kid looks.  And new teeth grow in REALLY quickly.  He already has a couple of new, big bottom teeth coming in.  The Tooth Fairy has been kept busy at our house.

How much the Tooth Fairy currently gives for lost teeth was a conversation Super Mom and I had at one point during this, as we assumed that the shiny quarters we received when we were kids were no longer acceptable.  We heard tell from other parents that their children received upwards of five dollars or more per tooth and felt that the poor Tooth Fairy might be in dire straights with the current global financial melt down and that five dollars might tax the poor Tooth Fairy too much, especially considering that she was probably one of the ones hit when the real estate melt down came down.  Fortunately, the Tooth Fairy was still financially sound when she hit our house and ponied up three whole dollars for each tooth. Three dollars is a lot of money for a six year old and may as well be a million dollars for all Super Michael cares.  For six dollars total, there's a whole plethora of toys that can be purchased at your local Toys R Us.

One tooth came out while we were off on vacation in Oregon and there was some concern involved regarding the ability of the Tooth Fairy to find us while we were out and about.  Fortunately, we were prepared with the special Tooth Fairy Pillow which must have a special Tooth Fairy beacon embedded in it somewhere because, amazingly, the Tooth Fairy found us in our Oregon cabin even in the middle of tons of snow all around us.

I'm under the impression that as Super Michael gets older, the Tooth Fairy will have to pay more for each tooth.  I'm not sure if this has to do with inflation, or if it's more like getting raises at work because of your experience, but the Tooth Fairy's annual outlay on teeth must be pretty impressive.  I'm wondering if all that money she puts out on teeth is considered a tax deduction, and what exactly does she DO with all of those teeth once she has them?  Would the teeth be consider business expenses like buying raw materials or something?

And while we're on the subject of the Tooth Fairy, is there just ONE Tooth Fairy, or is there a whole company of Tooth Fairies that employ thousands of fairies around the world?  Something like Tooth Fairy, Inc.?  Would it be considered a Fortune 500 company?  I guess you would actually have to be selling products to be considered for that list.  Maybe Tooth Fairy, Inc. would be considered a charity, or non-profit organization.  Really makes you wonder, doesn't it?

And I just thought about something else!  We're just talking about the Tooth Fairy here, what about Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny!  Oh well, guess we can leave those two for another post.

On another note, I was absent from this blog for quite sometime.  I wasn't really sure what to do with the blog and I was really unhappy with the blog software the site was using and it was just really, really ugly and didn't do what I wanted it to do.  I've changed to a new blog engine using BlogEngine.net.  I'm much happier with this solution as it's more geared towards actual BLOGGING.  Of course, there are some things I'd like to see fixed with it, but it does what I want for now.

So, long story short, my future plans are to start back blogging here on a more regular basis.