But the biggest news of the weekend is not the catastrophe of the dropped paint, the triumph of the lemonade stand, or the triumph over the stump. The biggest news of the weekend is that Our Hero lost his first tooth! And we don't have it. It came out when he was playing football with Eli in Eli's backyard after dinner. He left it on the field of glory, Fans. He left it on the field of glory.
The tooth fairy has tucked a $5 spot under Joe's pillow. Now that might seem spendy, Fans, and we are with you. But here's the deal: a week or so ago, Joe got an Avengers-branded watch with his own money, after having seen it in Target weeks earlier and apparently having tucked away in his secret heart. And in his zeal to get it out of the package, he was hacking away at the packaging--and hacked right through the flexible plastic band. Oh Fans. Oh Fans. The heartbreak. Accidents happen. But Ted noted that this was not the first time that Our Hero had damaged something because of overly enthusiastic package hacking and the Avenger watch hacking became a Teachable Moment.
They can be such a drag, Fans, right? Especially when what follows in their wake is the carefully taping of an Avengers watch band with black electrical tape multiple times a day for many days after the Teachable Moment.
So tonight, Julie said that she thought the Tooth Fairy should leave $5 for Joe so he could get a new watch, under the managing-expectations-guise of it being the first tooth which scores one a bit more than those that follow. And so Our Hero is sleeping right now on a fiver. We can't wait to see him in the morning.
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