The Tooth Fairy is a Thief
I spent an entire four minutes of my life trying to figure out who is to blame for starting all of this Tooth Fairy nonsense. While we most certainly didn't introduce the concept to Alexis, she's all in. ALL IN.
She's so in that when she lost a tooth last week, she built a shrine around her tooth. I don't have a photo of it because I didn't discover it until well after midnight when I went to swap the disgusting little tooth for a dollar bill. Never risk waking a kid that may or may not be sleeping. Don't even think about turning on a light or using any sort of flash photography. Just stay low, wear all black, and plead stupid if you get caught.
I did manage to snag this one part of the shrine while pulling tooth ninja duty.
Add more random pieces of paper with hearts, glitter, bling, and ridiculousness, and you'll have a picture in your mind that is probably spot on with what I found.
But WHY? That is what I want to know. WHY build a shrine for the Tooth Fairy? Does Alexis think that will earn her a few extra pennies? Earn her a lifetime of Tooth Fairy favors? WHAT?
It didn't get her anything, by the way. In fact, I don't ever have cash, so all the bribery in the world wasn't about to change how the Tooth Fairy comes across money to buy rejected teeth. The Tooth Fairy digs in Alexis' piggy bank. I like to think of it as the Tooth Fairy Recycling Program.
Ahem.
Go ahead, judge me. At least I don't use any of my own money to pay for hideous little teeth.
I just waste time trying to figure out how the whole stupid thing started in the first place. Which, for the record, it has been happening for a very long time.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Reader Comments (7)
It's probably more about the FAIRY than the teeth. With all the Tinkerbell movies and Pixie Hollow game my niece is obsessed with them. And those hideous little teeth will probably be worth more than gold when she's grown and left the nest.
I recycle the dollars, too, but that's because they've got "fairy dust" on them. I replace them with regular dollars because fairy dust doesn't last. ;) Our Baby Girl lost her 7th tooth (I know, she's COUNTING) and left a note for the tooth fairy (or, as she wrote "toot" fairy, LOL!) asking to KEEP IT! She got it in a little box sprinkled with fairy dust and a little more $ than before because this one was rough.
my heart totally exploded at the artwork! how adorable that the smile is missing two teeth?!
love that child. serious love.
I think recycling the dollars is BRILLIANT. Making mental notes for later... :)
I can't tell you how many times I had to borrow from Son to pay the tooth fairy! Its only fair.
That tooth fairy was around when I was a child - 50+ years ago - before fairy dust came on the market. The exchange rate was a bit less back then.
Heh! Love that you use her money! And only a dollar.....at least I'm not alone! What is up with parents giving 5 and 10 dollars a tooth?!