My eight year old still believes in the Tooth Fairy. Adorable, right? Well, evidently, she also believes that the tooth fairy will come digging around under pillows even when you do NOT have a tooth under there. Evidently, the tooth fairy in my daughter's world is expected to respond to letters about loose teeth, or almost loose teeth, or teeth that may be lost sometime in the future. Letters that I don't even know are under the pillow in the first place.
Letters like the one she showed me this morning, because the inept tooth fairy didn't respond to it when my kid put it under her pillow last night: "Dear Tooth Fairy: When is this tooth coming out? It's painful and it's wiggling. Are you coming to get it soon?"
OK, nevermind that my kid's tooth is not even loose, but she swears it is and forces me to look at it every evening. Now, given that I am the intermediary for the tooth fairy, you tell me -how is the tooth fairy supposed to receive my daughter's highly important letters about loose teeth, if I don't even know that she wrote the letter?!? Am I supposed to start checking under her pillow each night JUST IN CASE my kid wants to have a conversation with the tooth fairy about floss?
I've responded to letters to the toothy fairy in the past, like when my daughter asked the tooth fairy a couple of years ago if she had a leprechaun for a brother, and if she knew the Easter Bunny personally. Oh, you laugh. But, you should've seen how hard it was to write that tiny, as if it the response had come from fairy hands. And at least that letter accompanied an actual tooth.
Now what's next? Cookies and milk left out for Santa before Christmas? Actually, that wouldn't be so bad. Surely, I would notice those.
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Posted by: Jennifer | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 07:15 AM
thats so cute, sounds as though she'll be a writer like her mom. as a granny i know these innocent young years are the best part of her life and will be your lasting memories one day to cheerish. God Bless :-)
Posted by: julie cutshaw | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 09:30 AM
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Posted by: JDaniel4smom | Wednesday, October 07, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Awww! Kids make things so hard for us sometimes. LOL I'm glad my daughter knows there is no tooth fair anymore. I still put money under her pillow when she loses one, though. ;)
Posted by: Lori A. | Friday, October 09, 2009 at 08:15 AM
I agree with Julie...the excitement she gets when she receives a response from the toothfairy far outweighs the time it takes to write it. (I love that you put enough thought into it to make it seem like it was written with fairy hands!) My mom always made things special like leaving a trail fo gold-wrapped candy to a pot of gold on St. Patricks Day. It's all about making things special for the kids.
Posted by: Taylor | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 12:56 PM
Hilarious :) Of course the tooth fairy IS a busy lady and only can visit those people who have tooth that they've lost and write then because otherwise she'd have no time, right? Then again, our tooth fairy doesn't come if the dentist has to pull the tooth, so maybe I'm just a Scrooge.
Posted by: Michelle | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 05:11 PM
Well- you could always say the tooth fairy was too busy delivery money for teeth!
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