The Trooth Fairy
I swear to God Jake is part shark. Everytime I turn around another tooth is falling out of this kid’s mouth. Last week he lost one of the teeth next to his front tooth and brought it in to my office to show me. The tooth sat on my filing cabinet (seems I didn’t have time to add it to my human tooth necklace right away) and ended up getting lost or tossed. A couple days passed before Jake realized he hadn’t put it under his pillow and that’s when we realized it was gone.
He thought it would be cool to wad up a piece of paper to resemble a tooth and put that under his pillow to see if she’d be able to tell the difference.
She could.
The next night he decided he needed the cash and left her a note with an apology and a few questions.
She was kind enough to stop back and leave him a buck and a response:
This amused Jake greatly, but that was not good enough. So he decided to push her a bit and leave the paper wad under the pillow for a third night to see if he could get another buck out of her.
Imagine his surprise when he looked in the mirror this morning and found this staring back at him.
And discovered this under his pillow:
Moral of the story:
Fairies don’t get mad…
They get even.
You CRACK me UP!
Thanks Kate!
Fairy Good! Jake’s look of surprise and
wonder when he looked in the mirror the next
morning? PRICELESS
Squirrelly – Jake woke up while I was in his room but didn’t remember (as he often does not). I giggled my butt off the whole time I did it and went to bed laughing until it dawned on me that he might be freaked out, although that is not his temperament. When he actually saw himself in the morning his response was, “AWESOME!”. He thought it was cool to get the notes but getting colored on really made it fun I guess.
Oh, it sounds like a lot of fun, but actually we never did play Santa or Tooth Fairy with our kids. When I was a kid I was sensitive, and was crushed when I found out my parents actually LIED to me. Talk about not liking to be tricked!! Anyway, it was cute. I hope you will soon tell the adorable boys the truth though.
You can visit my site at http://www.phenomenaltruths.wordpress.com. Rather ironic, isn’t it?
Love Ya,
Andrea
Andrea – I think they’re already non-believers when it comes to these magical creatures because the neighbor boy told them last Christmas. The only thing that keeps them clinging to the notion that these characters are real is that they don’t think their parents would ever be that generous to give them whatever they asked for.
Nice work, Mary! Oh, let them believe, even when they half don’t believe. Telling them the truth will just ruin some fun memories.
I’d much rather have my kid mad at me because I went along with the fairytales that almost every other kid wants to believe in than to grow up being told there is no such thing.
Should we tell them that every book they ever loved as children was a lie, too? They will be faced with all the unpleasant truths of life soon enough.
Great point!
In our house we would say that Jake has a fine
sick mind; it is an accolade that we give to only
those truely deserving. Time will tarnish childish
fantasies soon enough.
Kerry and I are busting up laughing. Gawd, only you could do something like this to your kid and get away with it. I can’t believe they haven’t figured out the culprit was their irreverent mother.
Holy hell Karmen. That made me lose it. So funny. Am in India this week and needed a big laugh. I fly to the MN next weekend, so the stuff you left at my place will be 4,000 miles closer to you.
LOL! I quit believing when you told me Santa was in jail for shooting and killing the Easter Bunny.
It’s been at least a week since you posted this one and I find myself giggling every time I think about it. My only experience with leaving notes for the kids was playing Santa and the Easter Bunny and thanking them for leaving the cookies and carrots….um, cookies for Santa, carrots – Easter Bunny. They too pretended to believe for a LONG time not wanting to lose the possibility of gifts from the mythical creatures. My 17 yr old STILL wants an Easter basket.
Another thing that clued me into Santa being a fraud was when I woke up Christmas morning, the fat man managed to get into the appartment without unchaining the door and he put the plate and glass which held the cookies and milk in the dish washer. Hmmmmm
My 13 year old still “expects” $$ from the tooth fairy!
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