The Lost Tooth
My daughter lost a tooth last week. This time she didn't want to put it under her pillow because, apparently, the secretary at her school gives out better prizes than the tooth fairy.
So she put it in a plastic bag for safe-keeping over the holidays. Tonight, she decided to get the tooth ready for presentation to the school secretary. She filled her bathroom sink with water, put in a little soap, then used an old toothbrush to scrub the tooth until it was sparkling.
When she pulled the stopper up and watched the water swirl around, she lost hold of her tooth and dropped it down the drain.
She was heartbroken. As I consoled her, I said, "Well, you'll lose more teeth soon. You can wait until then to get a prize."
She sniffled and whimpered, but then turned her head up to me and said, "But Daddy, what about my other tooth?"
"What other tooth?"
"The one in the envelope in the box way up high on your shelf. I put it under my pillow but then I saw it later in the box and I know you and Mommy are the tooth fairy. Can I use that tooth and say it's a new one?"
Well, at least she's clever. I'm not even going to think about why she was climbing up those shelves. Probably looking for candy. She has quite the sweet tooth. If she can just hold on to it.
So she put it in a plastic bag for safe-keeping over the holidays. Tonight, she decided to get the tooth ready for presentation to the school secretary. She filled her bathroom sink with water, put in a little soap, then used an old toothbrush to scrub the tooth until it was sparkling.
When she pulled the stopper up and watched the water swirl around, she lost hold of her tooth and dropped it down the drain.
She was heartbroken. As I consoled her, I said, "Well, you'll lose more teeth soon. You can wait until then to get a prize."
She sniffled and whimpered, but then turned her head up to me and said, "But Daddy, what about my other tooth?"
"What other tooth?"
"The one in the envelope in the box way up high on your shelf. I put it under my pillow but then I saw it later in the box and I know you and Mommy are the tooth fairy. Can I use that tooth and say it's a new one?"
Well, at least she's clever. I'm not even going to think about why she was climbing up those shelves. Probably looking for candy. She has quite the sweet tooth. If she can just hold on to it.
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13 Comments:
Busted!
What's up with the secretary collecting kid's teeth?
LOL she will go far that girl....
As gross as this is.... I kept all me lads teeth in a jar LMFAO..... I was busted a few years ago when we was having a clear out......what the hell I thought I was saving them for I just dont know..... I asked each son if they wanted their pile of teeth and they looked at me like I was insane lol...... STRAIGHT IN THE BIN THEY WENT..
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So did you give it to her? I can just imagine how distraught she must have been when she lost that one
If she can find something as small as a tooth at the top shelf of your closet - what is Santa going to do when he hides gifts at your house prior to Christmas?
(P.S. My kids knows that Santa some times runs out of room and needs a little help. I have told him that I am always willing to help Santa out anytime!)
Lael is always prowling the shelves. We're doomed that way, too.
Did you check the drain's trap? Weren't they invented as a way to catch heavy items such as rings? Or are they there just to build up gunk? Just a thought.
Wait...wait... you're the tooth fairy??
Does that make Whit the easter bunny?
Phil, I bet the tooth is stuck in the hair and stuff that gets caught in the stopper apparatus in the bathroom sink. Reach around behind the sink and unscrew the levered ball joint and carefull pull out the pin that moves the plastic five inch long stopper (topped with the silver steel 'stopper' itself) and you might just nab it.
Bret and Philip,
That's the first thing I tried. Unfortunately, I had cleaned those stoppers last month, so there wasn't much guck for the tooth to get trapped in.
She went to school today with her old tooth and seemed quite happy.
My son (at the age of 6 or so) had an incredibly loose tooth. So loose that it was at a different angle every time you'd look at him. One evening I fixed rice as a side dish for dinner. As he took his first bite he complained that the rice was still hard. I pulled down his lip to see that his loose tooth was now gone...swallowed. He began to cry. I thought he was upset because he wouldn't have a tooth to leave for the tooth fairy. NO. He was afraid that his tooth would bite his stomach.
:)
Chatterbox
You sure don't hide your candy very well, do you?
Josh keeps asking me, "Mom, if you were the one who takes our teeth, where would you put them?" He is quite a pack rat and I'm sure he just wants to make sure that I don't throw them away. I told him that I would tell him after all his baby teeth fall out. And knowing him, when that day comes he will remember that and hold me to it.
Great story. Does she brush the teeth in her mouth as well as she polished the lost one?
And that is odd about the secretary.
We keep our daughter's teeth in little labelled ziploc bags with the date that they came out on each one -- and we pin them to the bulletin board in the hall :)
That said, for some reason my daughter seriously wants to believe in the tooth fairy while quite fine with the "there is no Santa or Easter bunny" thing.
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