Literally.

I picked him up at school and he said proudly, “Mom, I lost my tooth!”

“How exciting!”, I replied. “Can I see it?”

“No, I mean I LOST it.”

We decided that a note of explanation to the tooth fairy would suffice in lieu of the actual tooth. But I was sad I didn’t get to see his first lost tooth! Turns out, in talking to my friends, that this is not uncommon…(the lost-lost tooth)