Of Teeth and Character

Today's post is a bit of a p.s. to my post of a few days ago about the uniqueness of our children. This irrepeatability covers even the most banal of events - if one can call the losing of one's teeth banal. I suppose, to a child and, yes, to his mother, the loss of the first few teeth is actually quite momentous. Jacob has now lost three teeth and Hannah recently lost her second. Truthfully, I think that the loss of their teeth is following the exact same schedule as their arrivals did - Jacob had a few pearlies before Hannah's gums even began to hurt. Nevertheless, I digress. On to the real story.
The story of Jacob's first lost tooth went something like this:
Day 1 - Tooth begins to wiggle and hurt.
Day 2-6 - Boy makes valiant effort to make tooth wiggle and hurt more.
Day 7- Boy asks Dad to wiggle tooth. Dad wiggles. Boy asks Mom to wiggle tooth. Tooth pops out in Mom's hand. Copious amounts of blood, spitting, mirror-looking and yahooing.
Day 1-7 - Loss of tooth is perfectly in line with boy's character.
Now, Hannah's story:
Day 1- Girl notices loose tooth. With great caution and girl's permission, parents gingerly wiggle tooth. Girl jumps back in pain and clamps mouth shut.
Day 2-14- All family members except for girl forget completely about girl's loose tooth. Memory loss is perfectly acceptable to girl.
Day 14-21- Family goes on vacation to family camp. Loose tooth is lost in mother's consciousness.
Day 23? - Girl walks from great room to dining room, opens her mouth to speak and mother hears a tick-tick as tooth flies out of mouth and lands on floor. No blood, no spitting, plenty of mirror-looking, lots of yahooing from girl's twin brother.
Day 1-24 - Perfectly in line with girl's character.
Hannah's second tooth: Much like the first except that youngest brother hits second tooth with book causing the tooth to spring from girl's mouth. Girl quickly forgives. Loss happens on second day of school allowing girl to become the first student to record her name on the big tooth in classroom. Boy feels the loss keenly.
And now, for the loss of Jacob's first top tooth:
Day 1-14 - Boy wiggles tooth, parents wiggle tooth, boy complains that tooth will never fall out...
Day 15- Boy runs in from backyard holding tooth in hand, spitting blood, running to mirror and yelling:
"I bit down real hard on the swing (wooden) and pretended it was sugar candy and my tooth came out!!!!!!!!!!!!! I get to sign the big tooth."
Once again: Perfectly in line with boy's character.

Now, if we could only help out the tooth fairy who seems to be perpetually late at our house leaving excuses like: "The T.F. always takes two days to deliver on top teeth." And, another thing, why does the T.F. give other kids trains and Barbies and mine only get golden coins?