Our Hero Loses Another Tooth!

Our Hero has lost another tooth!  This time, it was his bottom left tooth.  It had been hanging on by a thread all week, and came out last night in the middle of the night.  But it's gone.  Joe was awake when it came out and wanted to show it to us, but as it was the middle of the night, he decided to put it back in his mouth for safekeeping.  This thinking makes sense only to a six-year-old, obviously.  Not surprisingly--to the over six-years-old crowd--the tooth was gone by the morning.  We can't find it anywhere.  Joe thought he might have missed his shot at getting money from the Tooth Fairy, thinking also that she operates on a strict teeth for cash policy.  At the same time, he also seemed to question--albeit briefly--the whims and wiles of this Tooth Fairy when there was no money under his pillow this morning.  He had, after all, lost a tooth in the middle of the night.  So. . .did the Tooth Fairy stiff him or what?  We reasoned that as she had left money when he lost his first tooth--also lost and thus not tucked under his pillow--she must leave money for the actual loss, rather than the tooth itself.  And as to why she hadn't come last night, we reasoned that she had probably already left for the night with her basket (Clara) or bag (Joe) of money when Joe's tooth came out, and so did not have the money to give him on her.  So we think she will visit tonight.