Katie lost her second tooth at school yesterday. She initially found the loose tooth a couple weeks ago, and decided she wanted to lose it at school because then she’d get to go to the clinic and get one of the fancy tooth necklaces. She really wanted that necklace. So, while she worked on that tooth at home, she made sure that she didn’t twist and wiggle it too much.
Yesterday morning, she got it out after she arrived in her classroom, but before school started. So not only did she get her necklace, but she got to wear it ALL.DAY.LONG at school. It was a very good day.
At home, there was much discussion about the tooth fairy. She worried that the tooth fairy would forget to come and wanted to know what would happen then. She worried that the tooth fairy would get confused and take her necklace. But we worked it out. Katie has a special book where she can put the information about her lost tooth in it, and she specifically left her a note asking that she leave the necklace. Then, in the space where she could list what she wanted to trade her tooth for, she stipulated that she’d like either $100 or a chihuahua puppy. Then, she begged us all to go to sleep right away so the tooth fairy would have easy access to what was under her pillow.
At 5am, I woke to crying. And the overhead light in my room going on. Katie had her special book in her hand and was so sad because the necklace was gone and there was no money. But I found her $2 and paused a split second before moving on to being upset that the necklace wasn’t there. I stumbled into her room (hey, it was 5am. I was tired.) and found the necklace which had fallen to the floor next to her bed. With the necklace secure in her fist, she cried because she didn’t want the money she got. She wanted $100 or a chihuahua or both and all she got was TWO LOUSY DOLLARS. The horror!
I have to give her a break, though, because while she was crying, we noticed hat she was burning up. The little girl with a fever and possibly a tummy ache clung to her measly two bucks while she slept in a little this morning. We’ve had some tears since she woke up because she didn’t get to go to school today and she wanted to, but at least she is resigned to the gift. The note from the tooth fairy didn’t hurt matters, either.
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