Tooth Fairy Magic

This week I read on facebook about a friend’s child who swallowed their first loose tooth when it finally fell. It really made me laugh. What bad luck I thought to myself with a little smile on my face.

My own enamel-ly challenged six year old has spent the last two years yearning for a wobbly tooth, positively praying for a wobbly tooth, he has spent weeks willing the wobbly until...

Three weeks ago the inevitable happened – HIS TOOTH WOBBLED! He was way behind his now gummy friends but who cares, it had happened! It had finally happened he was on route to growing up, the tooth fairy’s pennies were on their way to him and soon he would be the proud owner of a gappy smile!

So we waited...

And we waited....

And we waited...

Every day slightly more wobble but no serious movement.

So much we began to forget about it.

Then tonight, after story time, my partner came down stairs a little flustered,

 ‘Can you deal with him?’ he asked, ‘He’s inconsolable!’

The tooth had finally fallen! Good news soon turned to desperation when we realised it had fallen down the plug hole.

What followed was tear-filled! Full of real sadness, this rite of passage was lost along with the tiny tooth.

After a barrage of cuddles from which he sobbed (and snotted) under we hatched a plan...

We crept downstairs to write the tooth fairy a note. She is tiny after all and full of magic fairy dust, she MUST be clever enough to find that tooth and still leave the money.

Sobbing subsided and he was keen to get to sleep immediately as he was sure she was on her way.

It amazed me how absolutely completely he believed...

I wasn’t going to contradict this one any more than I am likely to contradict the three year old who currently believes ‘Far Cris mas’ watches him through the smoke alarm.

My boys don’t often go to bed well or sleep easily so any help I can get I take!

Whatever I do tonight however many glasses of wine or however tired I am I must remember to leave the tooth fairy’s shiny pound coin and maybe even a little glitter note!

I’m not ready to spoil the magic yet!