i walked up to ethan and he announced:

“dad, your ancestors don’t have anything to do with teeth!”

in spite of my best efforts to tease a more descriptive explanation of what he thought my ancestors didn’t do with teeth, he stuck with:

“dad, your ancestors don’t have anything to do with teeth!”

thankfully, logan walked up with the book throw your tooth on the roof, a collection of traditions from around the world on what is done with lost teeth.

apparently in germany, where my ancestors and by the transitive property of ancestry, ethan’s ancestors hail, there is no tradition or ceremony associated with losing a tooth.

and so, in proper german fashion, i went on to explain how it was all these other countries that were quite strange in their handling of lost teeth…