baby teeth

What do you do with all those baby teeth your kid sheds? There seems to be some expectation on the part of small children that their parents will keep those little baby teeth and cherish them as a relic of their lost childhood. I know I certainly expected that of my parents...though, come to think of it, I haven't seen those teeth since. Maybe they threw them away when I wasn't looking.

Of course, you have to do the thing where your child puts the fresh tooth under the pillow for the Tooth Fairy to spirit away. You have to do that. Those teeth are worth money to kids. Which is why, last time my daughter lost a tooth, she very excitedly held it out to show me, so that I could put it in a very safe place until the Tooth Fairy could get it.

But as she was handing it to me, I dropped it. And the dog, who is always lurking about waiting for something edible to drop out of the sky, promptly ate it.

Oops.