Cole’s response to the Tooth Fairy was pretty true to form. He gets sentimentally attached to stuff, and (for the moment anyway) he’s a budding scientist. So, when it was time to put his tooth under his pillow last night, he got a little sad. He wanted to keep it so he could “study it.” So, we left a little sticky note that asked the Tooth Fairy to leave the tooth for now. He has his tooth in a little treasure chest, and I put the chest on top of the note. But Cole was careful to rearrange things so that the chest was not on top of any of the writing. He wasn’t sure if the Tooth Fairy would be big enough to move the chest, and he wanted her to be able to read the note.
Amy, with her mad computer skillz, printed up a responding note in the shape of a tooth that told Cole to just leave the tooth under his pillow when he was done. The Tooth Fairy went ahead and left some money anyway.
This morning, Cole had more questions about the Tooth Fairy. As helpful as I am with trying to provide as much information as he wants on other subjects, I’m very non-committal about the magical creatures. The whole business makes me a little uncomfortable because I don’t particularly like telling him stuff that’s not true. He’s pretty sharp and, on some level, I think he’s starting to figure out that these magical creatures don’t exist. But, I have to admit, it’s kind of funny to hear him bring up “The Diaper Fairy” – a non-traditional magical character we introduced as taking away all of a kids’ diapers and leaving gifts when they were big kids, ready for underwear. I’m always surprised that he still remembers that one.
Anyway, I guess I’ll use this opportunity for us to study how teeth work a little bit. Wikipedia really is a wonderful thing.
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