Friday, October 24, 2008

The Forgetful Toothfairy














So last night we are all sitting down to eat dinner and A jumps out of her chair with blood oozing from her mouth. She lost her 3rd tooth! We then found it in the pizza on her plate...yummy! Anywho, she was soooo excited, just about to cry! And totally could not wait until bedtime to put in under her pillow. As we tucked her in, she tucker her tooth under her pillow and said goodnight!

What a great night sleep we all had! It was nearly 7:30 before any noise peeped from my kiddos. A was first to arrive. She peeked around my foot board with a terrible look on her face. "Mom, I waited for hours and hours, and the Tooth fairy never came," she said. As you can imagine, I just about lost all feeling in my belly. Oh man! What have I done? How could I have forgotten? What to do now?

Well, she climbed in bed with me and I asked her "what do you think happened?" She proceeded to tell me that their was another child in Africa that lost their tooth last night and the Tooth fairy couldn't make it back to our home in time. Oh, how my heart was breaking! We decided that we should mail the Tooth fairy a letter ASAP so that she would not "miss her or forget to stop by." We got it in the mail just in time.....now we wait. She anticipates that the Tooth fairy will get her act together and do her job tonight.

Praise the Lord for a 5 year old with such a forgiving heart!

...NOTE to parents, Be quick to think and slow to forget :-)

jo

1 comment:

Jen said...

Oh no! Well I don't think we'll be having a tooth fairy visit over here for quite some time:) But good to note!