The Tooth Fairy Comes Early for John

John and Mary now have matching jack-o-lantern grins.

"How could this happen?" you might ask. "John is only 4, isn't he?"

Yes, John is only 4. But like most 4-year olds, he loves to run around the house. And today, while practicing piano with Meg, he ran into the room where the piano is. But on the way into the room, he tripped and landed teeth first on the piano bench.

You can see the his teeth marks dug into the bench in the photo above.

Meg scooped John up immediately and blood started to flow from his mouth. He covered his mouth with his hand and, when he took them away from his face, they were covered in blood and in one of his hands, John had his top front tooth, which he handed to Meg.

Meg cradled John in her arms and I got him a towel to soak up the blood. John was in some pain, but he was mostly scared and encouraged us to call the doctor. "Am I going to die?" he asked at one point. We assured him that he would not.

We reached someone in our doctor's office, who told us to take John to the dentist on Monday and that he didn't need to be seen by anyone today.

After another 30 minutes of snuggling with Meg and an episode of Phineas and Ferb, John had recovered enough to start walking around the house again.

John seems mostly fine now, but Meg is still coming to grips with the fact that a "safe" activity like playing piano resulted in a missing tooth for our boy.