Adam's First Loose Tooth!

Adam lost his first tooth on Boxing Day!  His bottom tooth has been loose for over a month now!  He has been wiggling it and playing with it for weeks on end, but he wouldn't let anyone touch it.  We were on holidays at my mom's house in B.C. and Adam's tooth had been REALLY loose for the last few days.  I kept asking him if he wanted me to pull it out.  He said yes, and then freaked out when I got in there! 

So on the 26th, after we put the kids to bed, Ian and I were upstairs watching a movie with Mom and John when Adam came upstairs and asked me to pull the tooth out.  I guess he'd had enough.  It was so loose that I could bend it forwards and there was a hole behind it!  I told him I just needed to twist it out and it would be done.  He finally relented and after a few attempts, I got the tooth out!  He and Noah were very excited!  "What's going to be under my pillow in the morning?" Adam asked expectantly.  (We've told him that when he puts his tooth under his pillow, there'll be a treat waiting there for him in the morning.) 

So after he and Noah finally settled down and went to sleep (it takes a long time at Grandma & Grandpa's because they're so excited to be sharing a room together), I snuck in and took the envelope with the tooth in it and left a Toonie there for him.  In my day, we were happy to get a quarter!  I hope $2 is generous enough!  Adam was beyond excited in the morning.  "Where did my tooth go?" he wondered.  He couldn't figure out how the tooth was gone and the money had appeared!

As an aside, he's heard about the Tooth Fairy from friends, but we're trying to make sure we're honest with him and he knows there's no such thing as the Tooth Fairy, Santa, the Easter Bunny, etc. but that it's really Mommy and Daddy who do these things (though we do pretend things are from Santa or the Tooth Fairy because it's fun to pretend, we've still told him they're not real).  It's hard to know what the right thing to do here is.  We don't want to deprive him of childhood fun, but at the same time, we don't want him to think that Jesus and God aren't real since he can't see them either.  We'd prefer he know which things are real and which are imaginary.  Hopefully we're doing the right thing!