Operation: Tooth Fairy

I never really paid much attention to when kids start to lose their baby teeth, so I was amazed to receive a text message from my wife, while I was over at a friend's house, that read, "S is about 2 lose a tooth".  I was even more so surprised when a text arrived four minutes later that read, "It is out & it is bleeding".

Wow, our daughter had lost her first tooth.  I didn't even know it was loose.  Wow...wow.  I was kind of thinking that out loud and one of the guys made reference that I wasn't home to see it.  I kind of shrugged it off and let them know, I had seen plenty of other stuff.  My friend then mentioned that it was good that my wife was able to witness this and I agreed.

I arrived home to indeed see a gap in the bottom front of our daughter's mouth, where hours before there was a tiny tooth.  She was very happy about it and told me in a very excited shrill, "I lost a tooth, I'm getting big!"  Things were already being prepared for the Tooth Fairy to come.  My wife had told her a story about the Tooth Fairy coming, taking the tooth and leaving some money in place of the tooth.

It came time for our daughter to go to bed and the plan was laid out.  My wife has this little pillow with a pocket on the front of it, that she had as a child, for use when the Tooth Fairy would come.  So the tooth, that was in a tiny ziplock bag, was put in the pocket, on the pillow, and then the pillow was placed on the nightstand next to our daughter's bed.  Our daughter also wanted to leave a glass of water for the fairy, in case she needed a drink from all the flying around.

Seeing that our daughter takes after me, and takes a long time to fall asleep, I was the one that would perform the Tooth Fairy switch-a-roo when I decided to head up and go to bed, which was about 2:30am.  Operation: Tooth Fairy was underway.  As I got to the top of the stairs I noticed her door was closed a little more than it normally is.  Of course, right when I pushed it open, she rolled over on her back, face up.  I gave her a couple of minutes to get back in dreamland and went back in.  Alas, the tooth pillow was not on the the nightstand, it was in bed with her!  Awesome!  It was snug tight between her bed pillow, her blanket and her neck.  It was at that point I noticed every sound my body was making; from my gaper breathing through my mouth because of my current waterfall nose, my left knee squishing with every move and the one floorboard under her carpet that never makes a sound, creaking when I stepped on it.  There I was, holding my breath, felling the pressure I could only think that a bomb squad would feel.  Looking back it's hilarious, but in the moment, I'm pretty sure my forehead was sweating.

It went down with no problems.  That is unless you count a little girl shaking your shoulder at first light in the morning, looking at you eye to eye as you lie in bed sleeping, telling you in a voice that she thinks is whispering but is really just waking up her little brother, "Daddy, look the Tooth Fairy came and I got paper money!!!"  Needless to say the show, which is my daily life, got started early today.

Comments

[Ed (zoesdad)]

Close one!

[Sis in Law]

Awesome!