Slipping on Ice.....In the Desert!!

I posted about the snow that we got the other day, but we were left with super cold temperatures that resulted in ice. This made it for an interesting Friday for me. I was still completely swamped with work, and I had 14 reports left to write. However, I received a call from the school nurse for Taylor because she refuses to wear a winter coat and got sick again. Ugh!! Apparently, it's better to be sick than to look stupid being warm.

Literally, 26 minutes after picking up Taylor, I got another call from the school nurse. This time, it was about Jordan who was excitedly running to class, slipped on ice and crashed right on her face. I was totally handling the conversation until I heard "she chipped her tooth." Shit!!!! Apparently, Jordan is seriously the tough chick because she was asking for the Peroxide to get cleaned up so she could return to class. And then there was Mama who could only think about the impending dentist visit to fix the tooth that will cost me more money I don't have. Crap!!

Ken picked her up from school, and Jordan cracks me up. She comes inside, "Hey Mama, Jordan's home!" Yeah, like I could have missed her. So, then I take a look at her face. Wow! She really ate it!!

The tooth isn't as bad as I envisioned, but it is going to require a visit to the dentist next week to polish it out a little. I'm also happy that she chipped the incisor on the left. It won't be as noticeable when she's older. Whew! 

Now, because Jordan is Jordan, what would this be without something that "only Jordan would say." I am happy to report, that we have a Jordanism.

After Jordan let me take the picture of her scrapes and look at her tooth, she showed me the little tooth holder from school.  Apparently, she made the principal let her look for the chipped part. It was NECESSARY!!  I started laughing when Jordan was telling me the story, and she stopped cold and stared at me. 

"Mama, WHY are you laughing?! I'm serious!! I had to find the piece of tooth!"

Me, "Why did you have to find a small piece of the tooth? It wasn't like you popped out the entire thing and we had to have it surgically implanted."

Jordan, "Because how else will I get a visit from the tooth fairy if I didn't have the tooth that fell out."

Now, Ken and I are both laughing at her.  Me, "Jordan, the tooth fairy doesn't make a visit for an adult tooth - that's #1. Number 2 - the Tooth Fairy definitely doesn't make a visit for a piece of a tooth."

Jordan stopped dead in her tracks and just stared at me. Her shoulders visibly drooped, and she totally looked deflated in every sense of her being. Then, she looks up at me and says, "So, the Tooth Fairy is a cheap chick and won't bring me money because it's not the entire tooth?!"

A CHEAP CHICK!!  Oh...My...God....!!! I started laughing so very hard, and I'm really glad that she didn't try saying "a cheap bitch" or something like that, but it was obvious that Jordan meant just that!  

I had to leave the room because of my completely inappropriate laughing, and Ken sat down with her and was a great and loving parent on this one. He explained that the Tooth Fairy doesn't reward damaging the adult teeth because we're supposed to take care of them, etc. Jordan just kept looking at Ken like he grew a second head and couldn't believe that she was hearing that she would not receive money for her chipped piece of tooth. After some pizza, popcorn and a movie for Friday Family Night, she seemed to be fine with it all. 

Oh, and she still isn't complaining about her face hurting even this morning when it actually looks worse now that it's scabbed over, and I managed to get a better picture where you can see the chip in her tooth. She really is a tough little chick.