The first thing Bradley asked me when he saw me this evening, was whether I noticed anything about him. It didn’t take me long to see the new gap in his mouth.. he’s been waiting for that tooth to come out. And in fact, so have we, because he’s been pushing it completely backwards for the last few days… and that gives me the heebee-jeebees
The problem is, his tooth is missing… he thinks he swallowed it at lunchtime.
But the school secretary did the sweetest thing when he had to go to the office because his mouth was bleeding. She typed up a note for the tooth mouse, explaining the situation. If you can’t read the blurry photo (because Bradley was moving a LOT and the iPhone camera isn’t that fast) it says:
“Dear Tooth Mouse,
I am sorry but I swallowed my tooth so you can’t have it for your castle. I promise you can have my next tooth that falls out. Please could you consider still giving me money for my tooth.
Thanks
Bradley”
And therein lies the reason for many questions tonight, from both boys. She wrote the letter to the tooth mouse, and we’ve always talked about the tooth fairy.
Now I’ve been hoping that his belief in the tooth fairy would keep going for some time… and thankfully this hiccup hasn’t stopped the magic at all. At bathtime the conversation was about the castle that the fairies are building, and eventually Bradley said that he didn’t believe that… he knows that the teeth are used for stars. And then at bedtime, there was another conversation about the tooth mouse, and Bradley told us about his friend who got a note from the tooth mouse once with mouse prints on the paper!! And he wondered whether he’d get proof like that this time.
But then in his next breath, he said wasn’t sure what would happen this time when the fairy arrived and the note was addressed to the mouse instead. I told him that the fairy would just smile, and still leave the money.
This tooth fairy had better freaking remember to deposit a few Rand under his pillow tonight, or else there’ll be trouble! I just wish the tooth fairy had some glitter in the house so she could sprinkle some fairy dust onto the note.
Comments
Henti Smith
haha .. this is super cute !
I can’t wait for my girls to start down this path.
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Avril (Mom)
It was always a fairy for you and Carl – other children’s beliefs didn’t seem to come into it – maybe all at that time believed in the tooth fairy but I do remember the dilemma with Elaine. I told her that children believed in either .. but both build a tooth castle so it didn’t matter – one for mice and the other for fairies. Maybe boys have mice and girls, fairies! I’m for the fairies too ! More mystical and magical
Gina
Awwwww. When my friend Wendi’s youngest lost a tooth, she wrote a note to the tooth fairy too, I created a royal tooth fairy queen letterhead and typed out a note saying it was ok and I would get the next one. Then I signed it in a big flourish with a thick marker from the Tooth Fairy Queen.
She still has that letter
tanya
Love gina’s royal tooth fairy letterhead story! How cute!!
Momcat
Unfortunately the tooth mouse and the tooth fairy who visited my house started to get very forgetful and very busy and forgot to uplift a couple of teeth. But it was good while it lasted!
Melany
How sweet of the secretary.
Jason doesn’t trust that I’m telling the truth about the tooth mouse BUT he pretends as though he does lol
Laura
We use both (because I forget) and they dont seem to mind – lol – they also use both!!
It is also getting harder and harder to keep the dream alive with these things!
Pamela
We always had the tooth mouse when I was growing up.
Maybe you could say that the mice help the fairy’s build their castle and do the running around, but sometime when the mice are very busy the fairies will collect as well? Especiall for really good children????
Louisa
That’s so sweet – I hope she did come. The mouse and fairy debacle has always puzzled me. I wonder how they ended up being different with the same portfolio…I think when Nicola gets to that age I’ll come up with something where they both feature just in case.
Tamara
We had both. And I was happy to alternate between the two, just to keep things fair. Until my mother wrecked things by taking a human-sized bite out of a plum I’d left next to my bed (she assumed it was for the mouse, which it wasn’t). And there ended the fairy(mouse)tale.
cat@juggling act
Ag cute – brilliant secretary. We actually use both – the Princess insist the faeries come for girls teeth and the mouse for boys but apparently they are BFF so all is ok.
Angel
So sweet!
I had to write 2 notes for my knucklehead when he lost teeth, and I did them on tiny 2cmx1cm pieces of paper so the mouse would be able to read it!