I've mentioned in the past that my 5 year old daughter loves money. She especially loves toonies because they have a "golden middle" and pink and golden are her favourite colours, you know.
JJ lost her first tooth in August while camping with my parents in Shediac. Unfortunately she swallowed the tooth and boy was she pissed about it. All ended well because Grampie helped her write a letter to the Tooth Fairy explaining the situation. The money left behind by the Tooth Fairy left a lasting impression on my daughter. Teeth equal Toonies. It's that simple.
A few months ago, I realized that JJ had 5 more loose teeth. From that day forward, it has been her mission to get those teeth out of her head and under her pillow. She plays with them constantly and 2 of them have been hanging by a string for weeks now. Wednesday night, JJ had been in bed for 45 mins when I heard her yell like her pants were on fire. She came charging out of her room yelling that she pulled her tooth out. She was beyond herself with excitement. So we put the tooth under her pillow and, sure enough, the tooth fairy came in the night.
Now, you must understand that my daughter is an all or nothing kind of girl. Of course, she sees this tooth thing as a way to get more toonies and it just so happens she has 4 more loose teeth. What luck! Last night after she'd been in bed about 20 minutes, I hear a yell and we have a replay from the night before. The little bugger tried to pull out another tooth! This time it didn't go nearly as well. She came of out of her room with blood dripping down her face and the tooth still attached. She asked me to pull it out but after one failed attempt she was over that plan.
I cleaned her up and put her back in bed with strict instructions to leave the tooth alone. The things we will do for money.
3 comments:
eeeeek....I don't think I could ever pull anybody's teeth out, no matter how cute the critter was! :)
Sounds exciting - you could have a busy weekend on the way!
Every tooth in a man's head is more valuable than a diamond. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605
You don't have to brush your teeth - just the ones you want to keep. ~Author Unknown
The tongue is ever turning to the aching tooth. ~Thomas Fuller
Money is much more exciting than anything it buys. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. ~David Richerby
Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth. ~Peter Ustinov
Eeek is right! I cringed when reading this.....DD did the same thing one night by pulling her own but the blood was minimal and she was lying in bed and came screaming like a monkey.
4 more loose teeth? What is going on in that kids mouth are you feeding her rocks for lunch? Geez Louise!
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