Sunday, April 20, 2008
The Bad Tooth Fairy
So Friday morning at 4 am, yes you did read that right, PJ lost a tooth. He had woke up for some reason, I had just gotten him back to bed and I was heading back to bed and here he comes running out of his room yelling. I wasn't exactly happy with him I was afraid that he would wake up Miss Magoo. He was all for putting his tooth under his pillow right then and there for the tooth fairy. I convinced him that it was too late for the tooth fairy to stop by, she comes a little earlier in the night. We agreed that he'd do it Saturday night and everyone went back to bed. So Saturday night he faithfully puts it under his pillow very excited about getting $$ for his tooth. Well Saturday we had a little company. So after the kids went to bed we stayed up and visited until oh about 1 am. I totally spaced putting the $1 under his bed. Sunday morning he wakes up at 6 am in tears. He comes to our room and cries all over me about how the tooth fairy didn't take his tooth or leave him money. I think I saved it by telling him that it was mommy and daddy's fault. We had stayed up so late that when the tooth fairy came to our house she saw us still up and passed our house by, and that she would for sure visit our house again Sunday night and we would make sure that everyone was in bed before she came. Well this morning we almost blew it again. Thankfully about 5 this morning we remembered. I snuck into his room with the money and right as I was trying to open the little wooden box that he put the tooth in he rolls over and says "did she come?" so I left the money on top of the box and told him "yes". He grabbed the money, never questioning that the money was on top of the box and thankfully he didn't check in the box to make sure the tooth was gone. After all that sneakery PJ was upset that all he got was $1 and no gum. GUM, what self respecting tooth fairy leaves gum?? Apparently some of the other kids at school tooth fairies, go figure.
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HA! Enjoy it while it lasts!
Here's my favorite story about the Tooth Fairy. It's from the PRI radio show (on a public radio station near you) This American Life: [The bolded bits are the interviewer; the unbolded are Rebecca's words]
Rebecca remembers exactly when she learned the astonishing truth. She was in second grade, and ran into her best friend, Rachel, in school one day:
She pulled me aside and said, “Last night, you know, I lost a tooth and I woke up while the Tooth Fairy was putting the money under my pillow. And guess who the tooth fairy was.”
I said, “Oh my gosh, who was it? I have to know.”
And she said, “My dad. My dad is the Tooth Fairy.”
I remember running home after school and telling my mom, “Mom, I know who the Tooth Fairy is!” Declaring it as if I had grown up, that I knew who the Tooth Fairy was.
And she said, “Oh. Well, who is the Tooth Fairy?”
And I turned to her and I said, “Rachel’s dad is the Tooth Fairy. Ronny Loeberfeld is the Tooth Fairy."
And she said, “I can’t believe you know. It’s totally a secret; you can’t let anyone else know. You’re right: Ronny is the Tooth Fairy, and you know, he works really hard, and it’s a secret. So you can’t let anyone else know.”
From that day on, Ronny Loeberfeld was the Tooth Fairy. All of my notes under my pillow were signed: Love, Ronny Loeberfeld.
Now, um, in his day job, what did Ronny Loeberfeld do?
I think he did something in finance. He was either an accountant or a stockbroker. He worked next to a Stop’n’Shop in Massachusetts in Newton. He had dark hair, wore a suit, and I definitely had images of him driving his Volvo around the Boston area delivering the Tooth Fairy treats.
I remember wondering what it was like for Rachel to know that her dad was the Tooth Fairy, and definitely being a little envious that her dad had this special job and this special power and that he had this whole other interesting life. Whereas my dad just came home from work and that was it.
So when you would actually run into Ronny Loeberfeld, what was it like for you? How would you act?
I tried to act cool. I didn’t want to … You know, it’s like if you’re star-struck, but you don’t want them to know that you’re star-struck?
Just like meeting a celebrity.
Exactly. You downplay it. You try not to mention it, but you definitely check them out twice and, you know, look at them when they walk away. Like, “Oh my gosh, there went the Tooth Fairy."
But you knew enough to play it cool.
I knew enough to play it cool. I said, “Hey, how’re you doing?” You know, “What’s for dinner? How am I getting home tonight? Are my parents going to pick me up? Have they called?”
You did play it cool!
One interesting question in all of this: Why did both girls come to what seems like the least likely conclusion from the evidence in front of them?!?
[From episode #188: Kid Logic.]
Moddy, we have so been the bad tooth fairy before. It finally ended when I gave up and asked Grace if we could just give her the money and cut out the middle man. She was cool with that. The strange thing is, I think she believes we're doing the tooth fairy a favor.
Richard Dandelion, hmmm, there must be a shorter way to write your name.... how 'bout "RD"? - LOL, great story.
Who ever invented the tooth fairy anyway? It's just another word for HASSLE! We've had similar experiences-I'm glad I'm not the only one. Also, I'm glad you only gave him $1. That's what we give-some parents give $5, etc. so it's good to hear someone else is reasonable too! Gum? I've never heard of leaving gum either. Interesting. The joys of parenting!
RD, love the story, I can so see parents playing along with that one.
Miss Kitti, I totally tried that, offred him $1.25 if he'd let me buy that tooth from him. I even explained how we never had the tooth fairy growing up, that grandpa would just buy the tooth from us instead. He wouldn't go for it, I think that he was holding out for the gum. If I could go back to when he lost his first tooth I would totally buy it from him and bypass the whole tooth fairy thing. I'm already so over the easter bunny, and wish the kids would just figure it out and be done with it, what a bad mom I am. And as it is we've really scaled back on the whole Santa thing too. He gives the kids something small, usually some to compliment what we've given the kids and their stocking/boot usually contants socks and underwear (fancy ones for Miss Magoo) and some candy. They love that btw. We decided a couple of years ago if the kids were going to get something cool we wanted the credit to go to us not some made up man in a red suit.
Erika, there are kids at his school that get $5 per tooth plus gum and even toys???? These are probably the same parents that spend a crap load on every holiday ever invented.
I have some startling news for you all. I have seen the proof in person while I was in Italy, but the full truth is also available for any of your children to find online. Here...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_San_Nicola_(Bari)
That's right, jolly old Saint Nick is dead, and his bones are buried in Bari, Italy.
Sorry for those of you who thought "The Santa Clause" was a documentary.
b-hal wrote:
That's right, jolly old Saint Nick is dead, and his bones are buried in Bari, Italy.
/sound of Richard Dandelion's last shred of childlike wonder and hope shriveling, falling to the floor and being crushed 'neath b-hal's boot-heel.
RD, I love that This A Life episode, I love that the little girl " plays it cool" around the tooth fairy. Stuff like this just makes me wonder how much I could mess w/ my kids before they caught on.
Moddy, I say start low, 5 cents, hell my kids think any coinage is a freakin' penny and they would rather have that then anything else in my wallet.
In my day I think it was fitty cents a tooth, though we were lucky if Dad waited long enough for our tooth to be good and loose before he stepped on our toes and ripped it out.
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