Observations on the language development of my children. Native English mother, Native Swedish Father. Home language: English, school language: Swedish.

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

dropped a tooth

X "dropped a tooth" a few days ago. It started coming loose in one day and by the next morning it fell out with breakfast.

--Mommy, I dropped my tooth.

Losing a tooth doesn't actually make more (or less) sense. After all, you know where it is.

Speaking of knowing where it went. In Sweden a tooth is placed in a glace of water and is exchanged for a coin by the tooth fairy. We put it in water but opted to hybrid the event so that it incorporated the American tooth fairy who comes at night for the "dropped" tooth under the pillow.

The American tooth fairy left a 20kr note. That didn't go over well since 20kr notes are certainly not coins.

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