Okay so I kid you not, my child lost his fourth tooth yesterday (lost is a relative term, for all of them really, each time I got so tired of watching them dangle and slip right over apple skins that I finally said "Let mommy pull it out") which meant you know who was going to visit his room whie he was fast asleep and collect that lovely little tooth in exchange for some MONEY (Thank the Lord my child stil thinks $1 is a fortune!!!)
Here is how the tooth fairy routine works in our home:
Step 1: Put children to bed
Step 2: Do whatever needs to be done for the evening (laundry, dishes, blogging...)
Step 3: When the parents are ready for bed they make the switch, easily since it is always a few hours AFTER the children have been put to bed.
Step 4: Enjoy your child's sparkling eyes when he wakes up to find money in his tooth box
Great Job Mom, Nice Work Dad...
Only last night Stpe 3 was inadvertantly skipped. How could that happen?!?
And to make matters worse, I didn't notice until 6:15 when Zachary was almost completely dressed. I walked into Sean's room to wake him up and it hit me - the Tooth Fairy's Epic Fail!!!
So I did what any loving mother would do - ran outside to the car 1/2 dressed (well covered, but 1/2 pj's and 1/2 work attire), grabbed 4 quarters from the coin tray, ran up the stairs, casually walked up the last few steps and crept into Sean's room.
Done deal.
Right...
Just find the tooth box and make the switch, no big deal.
Only my child, whose bed contains no less than 5 pillows & 4 blankets, had done a stellar job of hiding his tooth box - to the point where I was frantic, he was slowly waking up and I was running out of time.
I scrambled and grabbed a Super Mario Brothers extra life tin, threw in the coins and ducked out of his room just in time to hear the sad "Mommy, come here"
So I walked in, looked at his sad face and asked him what was wrong.
"The Tooth Fairy forgot me"
I asked where his tooth box had been hiding (an important bit of info to know for future reference), suggested easier hiding places for the Tooth Fairy, and encouraged him to look around his bed. After a few coments about all of his pillows and blankets & how the tooth fairy might have gotten stuck under them all he finally found his prize.
My child, excited about his money and his tooth immediately concluded that he could leave his tooth under his pillow and trick the tooth fairy into leaving him more money...
Unfortunately his tooth fairy (while not always 100%) has a policy on teeth :)
