Magic and Mayhem

Two of my kids have been visited by the tooth fairy this week.

Victoria lost a tooth 3 days ago.  It was hanging on for days and driving her crazy.  Towards the end she even tied a bit of yarn to a roll of colored electrical tape and tried to fling the tape and rip it out!  LOL  All that resulted in was the yarn slipping loose and colored electrical tape suddenly flying across the room.  But that evening the tricky little thing finally gave up and fell out.

The tooth fairy left Victoria a shiny silver dollar.  Victoria was thrilled.  She told me she’d left a note asking the tooth fairy if she could keep the tooth but it was gone in the morning.  She shrugged and said “Apparently not!” with a grin.  That’s my girl! 

(For the record, I think the tooth fairy was too sleepy to read the note at the time or would have left it.  She has in the past!)

Last night, Annalee lost a tooth as well.  Hers had been bugging her all day and she finally ate the wrong food just right and pop, out it came.

She frantically searched for her tooth fairy pillow (we handmade them from old shirts with pockets and fancy trim years back) and then came looking for me.

“I’m trying to decide what to ask the tooth fairy for this time,” she told me.

“What?” I replied, “She’s not a waitress who takes your order!  She’ll just bring you a dollar!”.

“No, no, no,” Anna said, “I don’t want a silly coin.  I want something neat like last time.”

Ah.  Yes, last time Annalee was visited by the tooth fairy, she was quite generous.  She got several little bottles of nail polish, sugarfree gum and I think there may have been money to boot.

She had written the tooth fairy and asked for nail polish that night.  Luckily, the tooth fairy had some darling miniatures on hand, along with some other goodies.

I reminded Anna that the reason she got such great treatment last time was because her two front teeth were KNOCKED OUT OF HER FACE.  Ahem.  She’d been running and playing at the school gym during ECFE and had slipped and slammed her face into the gym floor.  She came running to me with blood pouring down her face and two little teeth in her hand.

Of course the tooth fairy was going to be a little generous that time!

Anna finally harumphed her last time and stuck her tooth fairy pillow under her pillow.  During the night, the tooth fairy brought her a one dollar bill and a small pack of Big Red gum.

This morning, Anna excitedly told me about her haul.  The gum did the trick (along with cash) and she was happy.  She’s been happily chomping gum all day.

The tooth fairy better watch her step with Jack.  Kids can get tricky!