Chickens and teeth

Short post, hilarious story. So Audrey´s front teeth had been getting progressively loose, and I had been trying to convince her to let me just pull them out. It wasn´t until we noticed that her adult teeth were already trying to come in behind that we started telling her to really wiggle them a lot. One day out in the front yard, I convinced Audrey to let me have a go at her tooth. I gave it a good push and knocked it out of her mouth and onto the ground. Her instant gasp of astonishment changed to a scream of fear as all of us out on the patio saw a little chick make a mad dash for the tooth and gobble it up. Apparently the chick thought it was a corn kernel. The chick tried unsuccessfully to swallow it, but instead coughed it back up. We all jumped to grab the tooth, but the chick was faster. It snatched the tooth in its beak and heroically downed it and ran off like a bandit. Audrey was understandable upset, but the uncontrollable sobs started to die down when we were able to help her understand that the tooth fairy would not let a little incident like a tooth in a chicken gut stop her from doing her tooth-collecting job. We may never know how the the tooth fairy was able to collect that tooth (Bentz contends that she dug through the chicken crap that night looking for it) but, like clockwork, the toothfairy money was under her pillow the next day.