Our precious daughter lost her first tooth yesterday. She was so scared and did lots of crying (hence the drunken looking pic below) but was super excited to put it under her pillow last night. So this a.m. when she got up she said "mom, I haven't looked under my pillow yet, do you think the tooth fairy came?".....I almost cried!!! I had forgotten to play tooth fairy last night!!!!!
I immediately got up and headed down stairs to get $$. Then I heard "mom where are you", I told her I would be right back. Well, when I got upstairs 5 seconds later she was standing by her bed holding the little bag with her tooth still in it. She looked at me disappointed and puzzled. I almost cried again. I started to whisper very stoftly, "honey, I'm so so sorry. Mommy and daddy are the toothfairy and mommy forgot. I'm so sorry." She just looked up and smiled at me and said "really?". "Yes honey and I'm just so sorry." I then proceded to tell her it's like a little game mommies and daddies play and it's just for fun and that her Mimi and Baba used to do it for me. She asked if all parents did it for their kids and I said yes but don't tell your friends. (Sorry in advance if she ruins it for your kids) =(
Oh the horror of it all. I cannot believe I forgot!
I asked her if she wanted to try again and put the tooth back under her pillow. She said yes. So she got back in our bed (where the kids always are for at least 30 min every morning) and I went in her room and put $5 under her pillow. I would have given $20 if that's all I had b/c I felt sooooooooooo bad. I was planning on $1.
I came back and told her she could go look again. She seemed very happy with her money and not too horrified by what she had just learned. But, my heart is still broken that I couldn't give her this one little thing to imagine upon. Last night she was asking me how big the tooth fairy was and how she was going to get it out from under her pillow................................ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh so horrible. =(
Here is my toothless girl who looks drunk. LOL and she lost the bottom tooth. Most people ask her if she has already lost a top tooth. She's just has that unique gap =)
my vote is that if that is the worst you have done, then dang, you are doing pretty good. She is forgiving and maybe God knew she needed to know the truth..the whole truth...and nothing but the truth about the tooth fairy. :)
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