Isn't it an unwritten rule that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy are supposed to bring happiness to a little kids life? Not so, as of this morning. Sweet K knocked on my door at 6am with big tears ready to drop from her big brown eyes. Hardly a sound of explanation escaped her mouth before the sobbing began. "Looolllllloooook at this...... " She sadly holds up the evidence that the Tooth Fairy had indeed failed her. Her tooth and her money. " Mom, the Tooth Fffffairy did not come." I quickly explained she had money in her hand. Evidence enough that she had spread her wings and sprinkled happiness in the form of hard cold cash at our door. Sweet K was not consolable. Why now? Why today? We have plans, a quick breakfast and the Zoo for some water fun with friends. I tried all my usual tricks, she would not be consoled. Mr M. whose sleepy fog filled brain finally realizes what the fuss is about. He signals me and explains that he infact did remove the tooth from Sweek K's bed. He strategically placed it right in the pocket of his jeans and then left those jeans where kids could rummage through the pockets for spare change. Only spare change was not what Wild Thing found. He found an injustice had taken place and some how his sisters tooth has not made it to her bed and that she would wake up disappointed two mornings in a row. The Tooth Fairy had forgotten her the night before, GASP...... Knowing exactly how to solve this dilemma he snuck that tooth right back to it's proper place. That place is right next to Sweet K's pillow where she was dreaming the early morning hours away. She awoke to a travesty. Who leaves money and the tooth? Wild Thing had unknowingly struck again. Thank heavens for quick thinking parents. We so stoically explained that Daddy and Mommy sometimes ask the Tooth Fairy to leave the tooth so we can save it in her memory box, ewe! Look, it worked. She thinks the Tooth Fairy did us a favor and she still has her moola. Well technically the dollar store now has her money! Another crisis averted.
5 comments:
Darn it! The tooth fairy is a failure here. She sucks. She never even shows up.
Glad the crisis was adverted.
The Tooth Fairy has failed a few times at my house too. I left the tooth last time, because I didn't want to wake my son up. He was really upset the next morning. I explained it away by saying it was left as a "trophy." I suck!
Ha! Oh that brings back memories. My mother was ingenious, she told us that, "The tooth fairy is getting old, and your rooms aren't clean - she might have a hard time finding your tooth." So we wrote her a note saying that we put the tooth on the fridge in a bag. The next morning, we woke up with a dollar bill under a magnet on the fridge. So funny to me now.
Parenting sometimes requires a lot of quick thinking.
At least the tooth fairy remembered to came. Ours slept every time. It would take DAYS before she could remember to come visit
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