Freaky Fairy

Sometime during the fireworks show, Chloe lost her first tooth.  She had it in her hand and then dropped it . . . and then found it again . . . and then lost it again.  She didn't even tell us she had lost it until the next morning when we noticed it was gone.  Just didn't want to bother us, I guess.  Very Chloe of her.

I told her she could write the tooth fairy a note and leave it under her pillow.  Then we forgot to do that.  The next night we were staying at a hotel and she dictated a note for me to write on hotel stationary.  The next morning there was a dollar bill under her pillow!  She thought it was pretty cool that The Tooth Fairy could find her at a Days Inn in Hurricane, Utah.

Before we left on our trip, we finished Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers.  Umm . . . no.  That's my review of the book.  It's very dated and hard to follow and difficult to read aloud.  Great story, poor execution.  It works really well as a movie, though.  We watched the Lindsay Lohan/Jamie Lee Curtis version first and the kids were way confused.  The only thing that movie has in common with the book is that the mother and daughter switch minds . . . or bodies, depending on how you look at it.  It's a delightful movie.  Jamie Lee Curtis is awesome sauce.  Even pre-crazytown Lindsay is fun to watch.  The kids didn't love it. 

The 1976 movie starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster is pretty hilarious.  It's a very faithful adaptation of the book, so Harrison and Chloe preferred it to the other movie.  I remember loving it as a kid and was glad my kids enjoyed it.  It's one of those old school Disney movies where there's a hilarious car chase at the end and a constant funk beat in the background.  There's a scene where the mom freaks out because she has to take a typing test for her daughter on (gasp!) and electric typewriter.  Harrison said, "Why are they using typewriters."  Awesome.  Watching Jodie Foster in that movie made me a bit sad about our young movie stars today.  They're expected to be tiny and gorgeous first and talented . . . enough.  There's no way young Jodie Foster would be cast in that movie today.  How sad, since she's really quite amazing to watch. 

So there you have it.  Tooth=gone.  Book=lame.  New movie=not like book.  Old movie=no skinny, untalented young actresses.