Alayna has three older cousins. All of which lost their first tooth in Kindergarten. Well, Alayna's Kindergarten year came and went without a her loosing a tooth. Since she started first grade she has been "wishing and hoping" that her teeth would fall out. She has talked about this day for SO long. So on Saturday Jared took the kids out sledding, since there was SNOW on the ground. Apparently she hit her tooth on the sled...it became wiggly.
To say she was thrilled was a complete understatement. She was in luck, the next morning she was getting ready for church and...(drum roll) her tooth fell out!
She quickly created a SAFE place to keep her little tooth until later that evening when she would be so excited to hide it under her pillow for the tooth fairy to come and take the tooth but leave some $$$. Well, this is where the story goes from happy to sad. Sunday evening arrives, she has said good night to us. We go through the routine of where you place your tooth, etc. But just as she has some extra nervousness (as Alayna often does), she returns back down stairs to ask yet again, MORE questions about the tooth fairy. (ridiculous if you ask me, but it was her first tooth so I figured I could play along.) Anyways, as she's holding her once safe baggy for her little tooth, she pulls on the tape no the bottom. I notice it pulls the plastic bag away from the tape. I then think to myself..."Oh, great that's all we need is a hole to end up in that bag!" So before I said anything out loud, we scooted her off to bed, up the stairs she ran...and no more than 10 seconds later we hear a blood curdling cry! You guessed it, the tooth had fallen out from downstairs to upstairs. I could hardly contain myself, so I shot Jared a look that said, "You better take over or else I might just ruin her excitement." So Jared calmly takes over, takes her upstairs and explains in great detail the "magic" of the tooth fairy. After about 15 minutes of explaining, Jared returns downstairs and is telling me what he explained to her. He said, "But this is the best part listen to what she said, "Dad, what if the tooth fairy isn't real and it's really the Mom and Dad's of kids?" Jared then said he SMILED, Alayna noticed and said, "Dad why are you SMILING? Is that TRUE??" He at that point shut her door and said, "Good night, I love you!" So thankfully Jared saved the night, kept it a secret so she could wake up SUPER excited the next morning to find a .25 cents under her pillow! Oh, the joys and drama of trying to keep secrets, or silly traditions alive for our children.
