6:55 pmTooth Fairy
After a week of diligent wiggling, Zoe lost her first tooth. During the wiggly week, she went around polling just about everyone who has ever lost a tooth (she may have spoken to you) asking “How bad does it hurt to lose a tooth?”, as she furrowed her brow and wrung her hands in anxiety. She has a very low pain threshold…
Finally last night, after 30 minutes of bribing and cajoling, and a squeeze of tooth numbing gel, she let Jon take a tug at it. It took 2/5th’s of a second to pull it, but in that tiny speck of time, her hand flew up, she karate chopped Jon’s hand, and the tooth went flying. As Jachin scanned the duvet cover for the stray tooth (because yes, we do all of our family medical procedures on our bed, and the tooth finding was made difficult by the fact that our duvet cover is the color of lost baby teeth) Zoe discovered a drop of blood in her mouth where her tooth used to be and completely freaked out. So she swished with salt water and examined the hole in her mouth (we were told in a screeching 6 year old voice not to look at her in the mirror). Jachin found the tooth and we all looked at it. Unlike Jachin’s most recent lost tooth, her tooth didn’t have a huge hole in it from brushing with Pop Rocks and swishing with Sprite. Finally she smiled, and she looked like a big girl — completely different. One tiny gap in the bottom of her mouth, and suddenly she aged a couple of years.
Jachin came up to me and flashed me a quarter that he had palmed in his hand. “What is that for?” I asked. He gave me the shhhh, quiet look and I shut up. He put the quarter in his pocket and walked quietly out of the room.
Jachin and Zoe decided to have a sleep-over last night, something they do often when they’re actually getting along with one another. Zoe found a little box to put her tooth into, and slid it under her pillow (which was now on Jachin’s bed). They settled down and chatted quietly in Jachin’s bed giggling and talking about the tooth fairy. After about 10 minutes, Zoe ran into our bedroom, freaking out.
“Mom! The tooth fairy came and I wasn’t even sleeping yet!”
Jon and I looked at each other, puzzled. Because, umm, we hadn’t seen the tooth fairy pass through our room yet.
“So I put my tooth in the box under my pillow,” she continued, “and then I went to my bedroom really quick to grab my butterfly night light…”
And then cute little Jachin who had been quiet the whole time finally piped up: “Yeah, and I was just casually reading my Lego magazine the whole time…”
Zoe went on, “Yeah, and then I brought my night light into Jachin’s room, and then we were talking, and then Jachin said that sometimes the tooth fairy comes even when you are still awake! So I looked in the box under my pillow and my tooth was gone! And there was a shiny quarter!”
“Wow!” Jon and I both said. (And just like that, the tooth fairy payment went from a dollar to a quarter… and no one seemed the least bit upset.) And Jachin was trying so hard not to grin that I thought his face would crack. And I wanted to squeeze his precious little head off.
Who knew the tooth fairy was a 9 nine year old boy… and a cute one at that?
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Nothing better than a toothless grin.
Comment by Lisa Milton — July 16, 2008 @ 4:42 am
That’s just about the cutest story ever. How adorable are your kids?!?! Very.
Comment by Leslie — July 17, 2008 @ 10:02 am