Tooth story

Next one comes from the top row, front. First one was lower, front.
First one was spit out down the drain, due to inexperience.

After reading about Emily's sink mishap with the handling of her first tooth, Lorlee writes:
The Bartos family had a tooth down the drain drama of its own.

Our practice was not to put the tooth under the pillow but rather in a glass of water on the window sill. Well, to Stephen's chagrin, someone either drank his or dumped it down the drain. To preclude that from happening again, when he lost the next tooth, he taped it to a piece of paper and drew water squiggles around it. That paper showed up years later in the drawer where my mom saved childhood memories.

It sounds like a tooth in a glass of water may be a Midwestern thing??? Maybe our tooth fairies don't want to risk waking us up in the night???