Tooth Fairy Mishaps

After such an uplifting day yesterday, Priya awoke to great disappointment this morning when her tooth was still under her pillow in a plastic baggie... the Tooth Fairy never exchanged it for a few coins last night. How dare her?

This is how I find out. I pulled my car in the garage this morning with the radio blaring and all I see is the house door opening, Priya standing there with great concern in her face, lips moving telling me something very important, but through the glass of my car windows and the loud tunes I couldn't make out what it was she was saying. Yikes, the Tooth Fairy forgot to come.

Somehow, last night I knew I was going to forget. When I tucked her in I thought to myself... go get the money now and lay it by your bed so you don't forget... then my laziness got in the way and that never happened. I got too busy uploading pictures and blogging about our fun day at the park yesterday instead. And, now I'm paying for it. The problem with this scenario is that you have to think quick... there's no time to prepare a grand explanation of why she didn't come for the tooth. Then, of course, I'm thinking, "What has Daddy already told her? Should we be giving the same story?"... oh man, I'm in trouble. I didn't have a viable excuse like my friend, KO, over the winter when this exact thing happened to her. Luckily, it had snowed the night before so of course, it's hard for the Tooth Fairy to be out and about in the snow. How about my friend Susan? Her story is believable too. The Tooth Fairy can't honestly be expected to go on a hunt for it in the car.

What was I going to tell Priya? She'd been talking about it all afternoon how she was going to wake up with money... how the Tooth Fairy had once left her 3 dollars (Really? Not this Tooth Fairy). The best I could come up with was that it was because she was sleeping in the trundle bed last night, not her regular bed and so that threw the Tooth Fairy off. She got confused, of course. But, maybe tonight if you move back into your own bed, she'll find it. I found out a minute later that Daddy gave a whole different story... something about it being a test for her to see if she would move the tooth out from under her pillow. Either way, both of these excuses are a little shady and Priya wasn't convinced. We'll try again tonight... hopefully the Tooth Fairy won't disappoint this second time around.