My First Tooth Fairy Assignment

String Cheese had struggled for many months with the fact that she was one of only two kindergarteners without her name on the lost tooth chart in class. A few weeks ago she was delighted to discover that she finally had a loose tooth--her right-middle-bottom tooth. Regrettably, several weeks later the tooth was not much looser. Instead, her jagged, new, big-girl tooth was growing right behind the loose tooth. So, today we went to the dentist and he pulled out both of her bottom, middle teeth. SC was very good. She was a bit nervous when they put the gas-thing over her nose, and I was a bit worried when Loumy ran over and started pushing buttons to increase its levels and I had to yell for the nurse to come in...and the shots were kind of scary and painful. She asked me to sing a lullaby that I made up about her and she said that made her feel better.

At first she was very worried that having two teeth "pulled" would not reap the same rewards as "losing" teeth. She was also distressed that when she began making phone calls from my cell the moment we left the dentist office, that most people were not available. Then she finally got Grandma Debbie but, "She really didn't sound that excited." (Although she sounded plenty excited to me).

The day turned out very happy for her. She was able to put up not one but TWO paper, personalized teeth on the chart at school. Dad did the excited--laying on the floor thing for her--kicking his arms and legs about like she does when she's excited. Aunt Kathy and Grandma Sharon called to check on her (little did I know that she had called them around 7am to let them know she was going to the dentist). And, her kind Uncle John even came over to our house and gave her two dollars! She had a special pillow that my mom had given to her which I had used to put teeth in for the Tooth Fairy as a child.

I had a soccer game tonight (we won and I scored a goal, yahoo! and i felt healthy, yahoo!), so Chancho had the kids in bed by the time I came home. I usually sing them each a lullaby. When I'm gone he sings them "Fried ham, fried ham, cheese and baloney..." They love it.

To my delight, as I went to do the Tooth Fairy duty, I found not one but two bags of carrots and a note that had been left for me (Deedle wanted to get in on the action so she left me a bag, too). I thought that was very thoughtful of them. Having just been to the dentist and knowing that the Tooth Fairy would like nice healthy teeth, they chose carrots unlike the cookies and milk that fat old Santa wants.