“I can’t eat corn on the cob this summer!” says Lucy. She lost the second of the two front teeth yesterday, biting into the hardened remains of a chocolate Easter bunny.
I forgot to put money under her pillow last night, so I slid it under there this morning while pretending to check for it. I don’t know why I bothered since Lucy knows very well that I am the Tooth Fairy. I was teasing her last night that she’d better go to sleep so the Tooth Fairy would come and she said “MOM! Tell the truth!” So I told her yes, I am the Tooth Fairy and that I would never lie to her. She seemed quite pleased.
I’m glad she’s got that to be happy about, because she’s still only getting 50 cents a tooth.
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What a great photo!
We have periodically had to ask whether the child has looked under all the pillows while the other parent hurriedly slides $ under one of the other bed pillows. We were found out by the existence of a tooth on a picture frame in our bedroom.
Thanks to my twin brother, who played tooth fairy in my absence one time, Ella firmly believed for the longest time that her tooth fairy’s name is Prunella – she even has a letter from her, written on pink, foil-edged stationery, in my brother’s neat printing, to prove it.
Because of this same brother, up until he was twelve, Simon believed that Santa Clause is make-believe, while Sinter Klaas is real.
My twin brother is still a bachelor (*sigh*) but I really hope he will get to be a father some day!
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