Stalking the Stacks with Library Lil
*Stalking the Stacks with Library Lil* |
2008-07-20 Yesterday MIL went to Farmer's market and got some sweet corn, first of the season, not that great honestly. Sort of imitation corn. Anyway, we had it for dinner last night at her house, and as per usual we got the ladies set up with their plates, then went to get ours.I was in the middle of "fixing my plate" when Amy started hollering--Mama! Emily's cheeks are bleeding. No wait, it's her mouth. And to be fair, she was remarkably calm. Let's just say, I was amazed I didn't drop my plate full of food, it must have been sitting on the counter. Upon investigating--indeed there was blood on her corn and her bread. I made her open her mouth and lo and behold she was minus one tooth. Best guess about what happened is this: she bit into the corn, got the loose tooth slightly stuck and when she pulled the corn away it came out. Husband thinks it was stuck in the cob and got flicked away, I think it flew. Either way it ended up next to my silverware. When the tooth fairy comes at our house, she usually finds a tooth in an envelope with a short note from the girl who lost the tooth (she also leaves a gold dollar). I save the envelopes and am trying to remember to write the date on them. Last night Emily insisted that she leave the tooth with this little fairy doll of Amy's. I put the tooth in an envelope, marked it, dated it and added the notation: lost to the corn. They both have at least one more tooth loose--Amy on the top and bottom, Emily on the bottom. Since sweet corn season has just begun, I should be extra glad the parking garage in Ann Arbor last weekend saw fit to give me my $8 change in dollar coins. (although honestly, I have a gold coin set aside just for this possibility--the tooth that we weren't expecting coming out on a weekend.) |
