Let me start by saying that Cecilia will NOT wiggle a loose tooth. She will let it hang out in her mouth forever, to the point that the other tooth has grown in and the loose tooth is no longer wiggling because the gum has grown around it. Maybe she's got a facination with sharks and desires to have 2 rows of teeth in her pretty little head.
At her recent dentist appointment, Dr. Braddy pulled on of the baby teeth that needed to come out - there wasn't even a root anymore. So....the excitment for the tooth fairies visit was growing by the second. Cecilia is very dilegent with the tooth-preparing ritual. She put the tooth in a ziploc bag along with a note. The note is a copied page out of one of her books. All of this is placed carefully under her pillow and off to dreamland she goes.
Fast forward to the next morning....I walk in at 7:00 am from the gym. Cecilia is standing at the top of the stairs holding her little ziploc bag, packed exactly like it was last night. The tooth fairy did not make her visit to redeem the lost tooth.
Daddy told her that the tooth fairy didn't come one night when he was a boy, either. He went to school and when he returned, the tooth fairy had left a treat under his pillow. Cecilia decided that if she left the bedroom that maybe the fairy would pay a visit.
After they explain this to me, Chris tells me to go into their room and check where he put the tooth to make sure it was in the right spot since I was the tooth fairy expert (really? - I'll add that to my resume). I walked into their room, followed by two anxious girls, lifted the pillow only to discover a $5.00 neatly placed in the otherwise empty ziploc bag. Cecilia is so excited, Leah is shaking horribly. Leah looks around the room and declares that "It smells like the tooth fairy in her". When asked what she meant, she says that it smells like fancy dresses and that the tooth fairy wears fancy dresses. Then Cecilia smells that money and declares that it doesn't smell like where the tooth fairy lives, instead it smells like the bowling alley. Cecilia goes on to figure out the whole tooth fairy mystery : the tooth fairy wanted to go bowling, but could only do that when nobody was there. She must have gone bowling last night and stayed there until too late....resolving why she didn't come during the night to recover the precious tooth of this sweet 8 year old girl.
Glad they figured it out because I was stumped!
That is so cute! Annika does the 2-row shark thing, too with her teeth!
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