The Tooth Fairy Cometh

Josie realized that her first tooth was loose shortly after her 6th birthday. To say that she was thrilled is a total understatement.

It took quite a while for her tooth to become loose enough to fall out – I'm sure to Josie that it seemed like forever! In the mean time, her other bottom tooth became loose as well as one of her top teeth.

Finally the day came…she was watching TV and sucking her thumb (of course), when all of a sudden, she rolled out of the chair, jumped up with her tooth in her hand- raised in victory.

"I lost my tooth! I lost my tooth!" She squealed. She ran over to show me the payoff for all of her patience.

"Wow!" I said looking at the tiny tooth lying in the palm of her hand. "You will have to put that under your pillow for the tooth fairy." Knowing all too well that I wasn't prepared for the tooth fairies visit.

Her eyes grew wide, her hand closed into a protective little fist around that baby tooth "NO! I have to show it to Daddy first…and tomorrow is show and tell. I can't put it under my pillow tonight."

Whew! I dodged that little problem for another day. "Ok, you can show it to Daddy and then take it to school."

So, said tooth was put into a baggy for safe keeping, and off to bed she went, leaving me with another advantage to the recent hole in her smile "Hey, you can call me 'Toothless Josie' from now on!"

I woke up the next morning to her telling her dad all about the tooth…she was SO excited.
As I got out of bed, I heard her racing up the stairs – literally racing – I don't think that her feet touched half the steps on the way up.

After she showed me that her tooth was still in the baggy, we went down stairs and I got ready for work.

As I was leaving, I told her to have a good day, hugs and kisses and then I said to her in my best 'I really mean it' voice, "Don't loose that tooth at school today."

She looks at me with largest grin (if a little gapey), "Ha, that’s funny…'don't loose your tooth'…I already did!"

It took a while for Josie and the tooth fairy to connect, but they finally did. Josie woke up one morning to find that the tooth fairy had swapped her 3 shiny new quarters for her first tooth.

A happier kid could not have been found that morning.