On Sunday evening Daniel comes into the lounge and shows us that one of his bottom front teeth are loose. I had my usual mixed feelings of pride and horror whenever something monumental happens to one of our children. (pride because they are just too cool and horror because they are no longer my babies)
Of course we asked him how long it had been loose for and he proudly tells us that his friend M (that also recently lost her first tooth) had loosened it earlier that day. With a knife. Which we hoped prayed knew was just a figment of his very active imagination. As it turns out it was a plastic spoon, which is just hilarious.
We then asked him to not fiddle with the tooth, which is like switching Disney Channel on in front of a child and telling them not to watch it. I can only imagine how much fiddling went on through the night and the next day, but needless to say I received a hysterical sms from the school on Monday: His tooth had come out, but he had swallowed it. Followed by another sms 5 minutes later: they found the tooth on the floor. Accompanied by a pic of him showing off the gap in his teeth. I called to congratulate him, but clearly he had already moved on as he was just not that interested to talk to me. Sins of the working Mother and all that.
Fast forward to home time and I arrive to find this on the kitchen counter:
We had a bit of a conundrum as we speak Afrikaans at home and everything is English at school, so there is a bit of a variation between “toothfairy” and “tandemuis” (toothmouse). On Etienne’s suggestion we wrote them both a letter and Daniel drew a picture of a pink toothfairy wearing a green dress:
Please note that the note was written verbatim on instruction from Daniel. We only work here to serve our children. He went to sleep with his ‘baggie’ under his pillow and we only just remembered to leave our first down-payment to the orthodontist tooth-fairy under his pillow.
His face when he came into the kitchen this morning was just beautiful, he was SO chuffed! We put his money in his moneybox, let’s see what he wants to buy with his 20 SA ront 🙂
Here he is, trying to show off his gap:
Cool can’t believe you too now have the fairy visiting.
Love how his friend helped with the ‘knife/spoon’
OMW already loosing his toothies?? Your boy is growin up 🙂