Indoctrination and pulling out your own tooth

Yesterday Madison lectured me on the virtues of "reduce, reuse, recycle." As we ate dinner, she recited all the things that would make my father-in-law cringe. "Dad, perhaps tomorrow we can ride our bikes to school." Great idea, but there are not sidewalks all the way to your school, and we would have to cross a bridge only made for cars to cross." Well Dad, perhaps someone can follow us in our car and we can then drive across the bridge." Later, Madison lectured me on not wasting paper because that meant we had to cut down more trees, and people who cut down trees are evil.

On another note, Madison had a loose tooth. She kept on bugging her mom to pull it out, but Shelly could not pull it out and told her to wait until it loosened up. Of course Madison, always looking to make a dollar, went to bed working on loosing the tooth, until she pulled it out. She then ran downstairs, looking like she was just in a bar fight, blood around her mouth, and holing her recently severed tooth, "Dad! Dad! I pulled it out! Now, can we put it under my pillow so the tooth fairy will come.