Twenty years later, and with the cost of living so much higher, I should have known the days of my kids receiving a quarter would be long gone. Now the cost for a tooth starts at $5.00, and has even gone up to $20.00 on occasion (completely my fault).
Losing a tooth isn't such a big deal in our household as I would like it to be. Maybe it's because they kids started losing them at such an early age. Emma is 6 and has lost 6. When a tooth falls out, the tears start to flow, and the blood! She's a bleeder with every lost tooth. Owen is 8 and has lost 8. Owen hasn't lost a tooth is almost two years! I see kids in his 2nd grade class that are barely losing their front teeth, his were gone in Kindergarten! He's never been very enthusiastic when a tooth falls out.
My favorite is when a tooth falls out close to bedtime. It's happened more often than not. That's not very much time for the tooth fairy to prepare! And the tooth fairy that visits our house never seems to carry any cash in her wallet (case in point, one child got $20.00 which was all the tooth fairy had at 9pm that night).
Emma lost her 6th tooth a couple of weeks ago. She put her tooth in her tooth fairy bag with these pictures next to it.
A book? I'm all for her getting a book, but when the tooth falls out just before 8pm, the tooth fairy doesn't really feel like leaving the house to purchase a book. I know, the tooth fairy could wait until the next day, but when she does that she tends to forget, which leaves a very anxious little girl with nothing. I love how her tooth looks so happy in her drawing.
She also left the tooth fairy an illustration of what tooth fell out. This is by far not her best drawing, but she was in a time crunch to get it done before bed ;) And no, my daughter is not a cyclops.
When Emma woke up the next morning, there was no book, but there was a $5.00 bill. I told her that sometimes the tooth fairy can't make it to the bookstore in time, but she left her enough to buy her own book.
She bought it.
