So, we don’t indulge in the tooth fairy.
It’s not for any religious reason, or because I’m a hater for all things magical and make-believe.
We just don’t.
Unfortunately, because of this choice, we sometimes ok, regularly forget to place money under the pillow for the child of the lost tooth.
I did the duty with the first tooth, but after that, I constantly forget.
I’m also pretty sure Sprite didn’t receive money from a tooth she lost a few months ago.
*shrug and awkward smile*
Anyway, Sprite lost an additional tooth just the other day with the help of our dog, Harper.
Our dog tends to get a little hyper and jumpy when you play with her.
And, while Sprite and Harper were playing in the basement, apparently her paw scratched down Sprite’s lips and raked out a loose tooth.
She told me something hurt, checked in the mirror and saw a tooth hanging by a nerve, so she just completely pulled it out.
Poor thing still has a scratch down her lips and chin from the incident.
So, we go through the lost tooth prep.
We place it in a ziplock bag and shimmy it under her pillow.
A second later she hands it to me and says it makes too much noise.
Fast forward to the next day roughly 2:00 in the afternoon.
My husband, Brent, looks at me and whisper asks if I remembered to complete the tooth money swap.
*eyes widen in forgetful horror*
He slinks off to snag a dollar, he passes it to me in the living room like it’s a drug deal.
I scurry off into her room and place a dollar under her pillow, in broad daylight, the day after she lost her tooth.
I proceed to call her in from outside and play it off like she forgot to check under her pillow.
“Hey! Did you check for tooth money this morning?”
A ‘that’s dumb’ look crosses her face.
“Why? I gave you my tooth last night!”
“Just get in here and check!”
She abides and finds a her newly placed cash under her pillow.
We probably just need to adopt a ‘trade in your tooth for a dollar’ routine and avoid the shenanigans all together.
*shrug*
Fun Fact: I wrote this about 3 months ago. Since then Sprite has lost an additional tooth and we are on day 5 of forgetting to swap it with money.
I told her we probably just need to adopt an exchange program.
She loses a tooth and trades it in for cash.
She followed up with, “Ok, do you have a dollar right now?”
Y’all.
I can’t even.
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