The Tooth Fairy

Abby lost a tooth at school the other day. She was super excited about it and this spawned a great conversation about what would happen if you lost a tooth on Christmas Eve. Abby's opinion was that The Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus would fight if they found themselves at the same house at the same time. She wasn't sure who would win the fight, though.

As she got ready for bed, Abby was playing with the little tooth necklace they gave her at school to carry her tooth home. She tried to open the plastic tooth box, it came open suddenly and her tooth went flying. We looked everywhere for the missing tooth and Abby's eyes started to well up with tears.

My suggestion was to write the tooth fairy a note and explain what happened. She didn't think it would work but did it anyways. Her note was very cute and basically told the tooth fairy she was sorry for losing the tooth and that she had looked everywhere for it.

In the morning, she was pleasantly surprised to find the tooth fairy had left her a note in return:

Dear Abby,

Thank you for telling the truth. I have left you a dollar for the tooth you lost. If you find the missing tooth, please mail it to me.

Love, The Tooth Fairy

My clever little girl could tell the letter was composed on a computer. So we had a lengthy discussion in which we decided that the TF has a laptop, with spreadsheets, that she uses to keep track of all those teeth. We also think that WCES has a computer system that messages the TF when a student loses a tooth. Wow - 6 really is a magically age. :)