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First the tooth fairy didn't have bills, so she dug out 4 quarters from her Ziploc bag of change. Then she realized the sleeping child was on the far end of the top bunk. That meant she would have to cross the river of toys, which was blocked with a stepladder dam. While she was using her phone as a flashlight to navigate the rough waters, she accidentally called Mr. Lopez whose phone was nearby buzzing loudly. "End Call!" So then, the dear fairy had to climb the child size ladder & ascend to the top bunk. Why this fairy doesn't have wings, I just don't know. To top it off, she's a hefty gal. With every creak of the steps, she had to stop & wait to make sure no one woke up. As she got to the top, she had to swing her short fairy leg over the wooden side. It's a good thing she'd gone to all those dance classes, as that angle was just not natural for an aging fairy. She wondered if she'd die falling from a bunkbed. Now she had to slither across the mattress to get to the other side. Do you know how long a twin mattress is for a chubby little fairy? Her 1st attempt at reaching for the pillow resulted in a finger up the sleeping child's nose. He rustled, but kept on sleeping. The second extreme stretch of the arm resulted in finally grasping the little felt tooth pillow. She grabbed the tooth, slipped in the quarters & sighed a breathy moment of relief. But now, she had to face that creaky ladder in the dark once more. She somehow made it down that ladder & out the bedroom door without waking anyone. She made it to the living room, so I offered her cookies. She just sat there wondering how she got into this job in the first place. Oh the plight of The Tooth Fairy!

I'd love to hear your Tooth Fairy stories. Did you leave the money & forget to take to take the tooth? Were you busted in the act? Did the kid accidentally get way too much money? Come on, I could use a good laugh today!
 
jesskab said:
First the tooth fairy didn't have bills, so she dug out 4 quarters from her Ziploc bag of change. Then she realized the sleeping child was on the far end of the top bunk. That meant she would have to cross the river of toys, which was blocked with a stepladder dam. While she was using her phone as a flashlight to navigate the rough waters, she accidentally called Mr. Lopez whose phone was nearby buzzing loudly. "End Call!" So then, the dear fairy had to climb the child size ladder & ascend to the top bunk. Why this fairy doesn't have wings, I just don't know. To top it off, she's a hefty gal. With every creak of the steps, she had to stop & wait to make sure no one woke up. As she got to the top, she had to swing her short fairy leg over the wooden side. It's a good thing she'd gone to all those dance classes, as that angle was just not natural for an aging fairy. She wondered if she'd die falling from a bunkbed. Now she had to slither across the mattress to get to the other side. Do you know how long a twin mattress is for a chubby little fairy? Her 1st attempt at reaching for the pillow resulted in a finger up the sleeping child's nose. He rustled, but kept on sleeping. The second extreme stretch of the arm resulted in finally grasping the little felt tooth pillow. She grabbed the tooth, slipped in the quarters & sighed a breathy moment of relief. But now, she had to face that creaky ladder in the dark once more. She somehow made it down that ladder & out the bedroom door without waking anyone. She made it to the living room, so I offered her cookies. She just sat there wondering how she got into this job in the first place. Oh the plight of The Tooth Fairy!

I'd love to hear your Tooth Fairy stories. Did you leave the money & forget to take to take the tooth? Were you busted in the act? Did the kid accidentally get way too much money? Come on, I could use a good laugh today!
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Jess.. I just absolutely LOVE this, especially with calling "Mr. Lopez" LOL LOL ...You need to scrap this.. Kate has the perfect Tooth Fairy Kit for it! :)
 
Oh my goodness, Jess! Hilarious, and you need to scrap that!!!! :compcoffee:beat

We have a couple....

We had the Tooth Fairy visiting one night, and we forget completely! The next morning, he seemed a little sad. I asked what was wrong (totally still forgetting about the tooth!). He said he was bummed since the Tooth Fairy. (insert panic on the inside and relaxed on the outside mom here). I asked where he put it, and he said that it was under his pillow, but fell off the bed onto the floor. I then got to save myself, and said that the tooth fairy didn't give money for teeth that were laying on the floor, they must be under the pillow! Whew! Thank goodness! :giggle Total save for the win!

Most recent was for a bigger tooth for my son. He put it under his pillow, and later both DH and I had cr*p attacks knowing we didn't have any dollars. I was saying how I thought it was his last, and maybe the tooth fairy could five him a last going away bigger gift, lol! (It was HUGE, lol, we only had a $20 between the two of us, and had just turned in all our change. We normally do $1 or $2). So, we overpaid for that tooth. Then I find out... he has one more tooth. Oh man... we said the tooth fairy couldn't count, and overpaid for that last tooth. We warned him he might get $1 for the last! OOPS!!! :compcoffee
 
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@jagruti patel, just wait, it will happen. We've had 5 or 6 teeth fall out in the past 2 months, between the two boys. Jamie has 3 teeth missing on the top!

@jk703 I love it! There have been so many times when I've woken up right before them & slipped that money in the pocket. In August, Jamie lost a tooth while we were camping. I woke up, reached in my bag & threw a dollar bill in his general direction, then went back to sleep. He found it & was so proud to tell everyone that The Tooth Fairy visited him in the forest!
 
jesskab said:
First the tooth fairy didn't have bills, so she dug out 4 quarters from her Ziploc bag of change. Then she realized the sleeping child was on the far end of the top bunk. That meant she would have to cross the river of toys, which was blocked with a stepladder dam. While she was using her phone as a flashlight to navigate the rough waters, she accidentally called Mr. Lopez whose phone was nearby buzzing loudly. "End Call!" So then, the dear fairy had to climb the child size ladder & ascend to the top bunk. Why this fairy doesn't have wings, I just don't know. To top it off, she's a hefty gal. With every creak of the steps, she had to stop & wait to make sure no one woke up. As she got to the top, she had to swing her short fairy leg over the wooden side. It's a good thing she'd gone to all those dance classes, as that angle was just not natural for an aging fairy. She wondered if she'd die falling from a bunkbed. Now she had to slither across the mattress to get to the other side. Do you know how long a twin mattress is for a chubby little fairy? Her 1st attempt at reaching for the pillow resulted in a finger up the sleeping child's nose. He rustled, but kept on sleeping. The second extreme stretch of the arm resulted in finally grasping the little felt tooth pillow. She grabbed the tooth, slipped in the quarters & sighed a breathy moment of relief. But now, she had to face that creaky ladder in the dark once more. She somehow made it down that ladder & out the bedroom door without waking anyone. She made it to the living room, so I offered her cookies. She just sat there wondering how she got into this job in the first place. Oh the plight of The Tooth Fairy!

I'd love to hear your Tooth Fairy stories. Did you leave the money & forget to take to take the tooth? Were you busted in the act? Did the kid accidentally get way too much money? Come on, I could use a good laugh today!
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Amazing! You made my day! :)
 
Best. Storyteller. Ever.
I always keep a stash of ones in my car for the tooth fairy. A few months ago, though, I could not find the tooth so I had to leave it with the dollar. My girls thought it was hilarious! I finally managed the switch for an extra coin later in the week.
 
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Christa! I was thinking "Who on Earth is calling him at 4am?", then I see his face on my phone! I nearly fell off the ladder. I should totally scrap this.
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You need to .. it is too precious a story and when the boys are older they will be laughing.. Copy your verbiage right here and your journaling i already complete! So precious!

@jk703 Jenn, that is so cute too re the on the floor and the tooth fairy overpaying... I laughed as Mom would keep the teeth in her jewelry box... I saw it all those years later and we laughed.. thought she got rid of them. I have her J-Box now and they are still in there. It is just as she left her J-Box almost 28 years ago. I have it, bu never go in it. Thise teeth though are so cute!
 
umyesh said:
Best. Storyteller. Ever.
I always keep a stash of ones in my car for the tooth fairy. A few months ago, though, I could not find the tooth so I had to leave it with the dollar. My girls thought it was hilarious! I finally managed the switch for an extra coin later in the week.
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Three times my boys have dropped "the tooth" somewhere before bedtime, even in the tent while camping. I don't know why I have this skill, but I found every single one of those teeth before bedtime. One time I thought, "well if I don't find it, I have someone's '1st tooth' saved--they'll never know the difference!" This morning my husband says "You really have a skill for finding those teeth", I said "I don't think that's a skill I want to be proud of". He walked away saying "Yeah, it is kind of creepy". Lol!
 
Oh gosh, that is hilarious but I'm sure it didn't feel that way while it was happening!

I--wait, I mean the Tooth Fairy--once forgot to give the money. DD came downstairs crying, and then I remembered. Oops. So I grabbed a dollar and palmed it while I walked upstairs and said "let's check again! Show me where you looked." She uses 2 pillows cuz she likes to be kind of upright as she sleeps. So, she picked up her top pillow but not her bottom; I told her to look near her blanket and pointed toward it with my left hand while I shoved the dollar under her second pillow with my right. She was of course disappointed because there wasn't any money near her blanket, so I told her to check both pillows.

Oh, I'm so glad she didn't see me hide the dollar bill! She no longer believes in the tooth fairy, but thankfully that's because of age/friends and unrelated to this incident lol.

Oh, DD liked to write a note to the Tooth Fairy, which means I have to find that as well as the tooth, and then write a note back. She was VERY upset when she couldn't find a note the first time she'd written. (I didn't realize a response was necessary!) so I told her "The Tooth Fairy is very busy. How many kids are in the world, do you think? And how many do you think lose a tooth every day? Maybe she'll write next time, if she has time." I had a note ready next time!
 
Yeah, you totally have to scrap this adorable story! love it Jess.

In my house we are long past those years now, but we often goofed up towards the end (when they were getting bigger) and I guess the novelty of it wore off for us playing the part of tooth fairy. We would flat out forget to take the tooth and put $ under the pillow. Poor kids would come downstairs with the tooth in hand and a very sad face. I'd immediately bolt upstairs with purse in hand and then say ... "Oh look - here it is! The tooth fairy must of been in a rush - and forgot the tooth, but the $ is here on the floor. Maybe you were twisting and turning, and were about to wake up so she rushed out there so you wouldn't catch her!"

They bought it for awhile - because it truly kept happening. We finally had to fess up.
 
Ah, Jess, MUCH MUCH love!!! I'm laughing!!! I'd share some chocolate with that Tooth Fairy too. I swear that fairy must have dog tags and was in the Fairy Marines. The things they have to do sometimes, eh?

What looks like a happy childs room with toys and joy spread all over turns into a mine field in the dark for the poor Fairy.

We've forgotten a few times and one time I hastily folded up what I thought was two dollars. Nope, a one and a ten. At least it got them to brush their teeth more, they swore they got more money because of how nice the tooth was. I just kept thinking how many cherry cokes I could have bought with the extra 8.... >.>
 
Love your story Jess! We used to do the tooth fairy, but since kid #3 is 6 years younger, I'm too old for tooth fairy acrobatics. Now, we just hand her the money as soon as the tooth comes out. I know it's sad, but the older kids told her the truth so I figured it was pointless to keep up the charade when she already knew. She'll probably be scarred for life... hehe
 
Oh my, I love the stories!!

Ok...so I'm going to admit it here... my biggest parenting fail involves the tooth fairy!
My kids were all really late getting teeth. The oldest didn't get one until he was 11 months old and my daughter didn't have any until she was 13 months old. So, in turn, they were both really late losing teeth. When my daughter was about 8, she still hadn't lost a tooth. One night I had a friend over and we were watching the movie Darkness Falls. Which, if you don't know, is a horror movie involving a "tooth fairy". She begged to watch with us and I caved. It scared her to death and when she did finally lose a tooth she would NOT put it under her pillow....none of them...ever. When she had collected a few, my dad came over one day and told her that he would take all her teeth and put them under his pillow. He brought her cash the next day :giggle. But I've always felt bad that she never really had the tooth fairy experience, even though I giggle about it now.
 
Such an awesome story!

We almost NEVER have cash on us at the right moment. The tooth fairy usually winds up leaving little toys that were stashed away for Christmas or a book because my daughter is an avid reader. She actually loves that the tooth fairy leaves her stuff because it is different than her friends.

We are at that in between stage now where she has lost the front 8 but none of the back ones.
 
This is totally not related to your adorable stories... but can I just say what a total crock I think the Tooth Fairy is?! Like why are we giving our children money for physical changes to their body that they have no control over and have done nothing to achieve? More importantly, why is there no Period Fairy & why am I not receiving $5 or $10 or $15/month for menstruating?!?!?!?!?!

Yes, I do begrudgingly take on Tooth Fairy duty but the under the pillow stuff is way too complicated for me. My daughter sticks it on her bookcase shelf in some kind of container that we found the first time she lost one. She's a 'dark' (her word -- ha!) sleeper so I was never worried abt waking her. Her brother, on the other hand, is a very light sleeper so we'll see how sneaky I have to be when he gets old enough to lose teeth!
 
hahaha!!!! This is the best tooth fairy story! So funny.

mine are mostly just forgetting to leave money. We live near DC and traffic is horrendous. I have used the "tooth fairy stuck in traffic" excuse a lot. Thankfully they believe it. haha
 
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