Back in ‘the day’ you could get away with smuggling a 20p piece under your childs pillow when their tooth fell out, I’m guessing nowadays it’s a bit different…
Beans teeth haven’t started falling out yet but she’s already excited and rabbiting on about wobbly teeth. I blame the local library. She’s managed to squirrel a few tooth related books into her bedtime reading pile on the last few visits to the library. We read these books at bedtime so she’s getting it drummed into her before she kips and it’s really starting to sink in as she keeps on telling me she’s got a wobbly tooth now. Of course like any paranoid-about-anything-and-everything mummy I have to check each time she states this – just in case it’s true.
The worst offender is Charlie and Lolas ‘My wobbly tooth must never,ever, fall out’. It’s in her bedtime reading pile every night without fail. It’s bad enough that it reminds her about the whole ‘teeth fall out’ thing but Charlie and Lola and books completely, absolutely, totally DO MY HEAD IN TO READ. My hubby is the same with them too so it’s not just one of my odd foibles like Baby Jake …
Being subjected to so much toothy banter from Bean has somehow triggered a memory, the memory of my eldest son,Wombat and how he had 2 or 3 fall out within a week once.Getting quite money obsessed with all his new found monetary fortune at the time we had quite a chuckle one morning when making his bed finding under his pillow a letter asking :
“Dear Tooth Fairy,
I haven’t got any wobbly teeth but do you take other white things for money like piano keys and shells ?
Love, Tom”
And after much digging hubby no.1 has found these beautys -
Love it. My mum used to write back as the Tooth Fairy and I was pretty convinced for several years! Oh, and Charlie & Lola have a lot to answer for in our house …
Oh dear I thought I was the only one to have fallen for the bad habit of letters back from the tooth fairy. We have recently had a lot of upset over wobbly teeth, followed by mornings where the duvet was covered in blood from too much wobbling! I wrote a similar post recently:
http://www.actuallymummy.co.uk/2011/04/13/tooth-fairy-misadventures-part-1/
Immense ! That’s one fab letter ! Thanks for sharing
Aww! A great collection!
I had to write a letter to the tooth fairy explaining that a tooth had been lost at school, eldest daughter was distraught on walk home wailing that the tooth fairy wasn’t going to leave her a “fairy £1 coin”
Loving the blog!
they are so funny and such a great keepsake!
My mum used to write back, in tiny self made envelopes with glitter in….
However, one time there was a note under the pillow that she probably wasn’t expecting.. it went a little something like this:
Dearest Tooth Fairy,
I would like it if you would fix it for me for Mrs Perkins to be my mum. I like her.
Thanks Laura
Mrs Perkins was one of the Primary school teachers, not even my teacher, just one I obviously liked & thought would do a better job at raising me!
The Tooth Fairy wrote back as usual:
Laura,
I am sure your mummy loves you lots & lots
Tooth Fairy
Now when I did find out a few years later that the Tooth Fairy was in fact my mum, my mind instantly went to this letter! I have never mentioned it, but as a mother now, I can only imagine how utterly shit reading that letter made my mum feel… especially as she then had to leave me some cash!
As a side note, my kept all my baby teeth, with dates etc written on the envelopes, she gave them to me recently, along with my first hair cut, my first ballet outfit… oh & my dad’s haircut in the 80′s when he cut his ponytail off…
Hmmmm perhaps I was going along the right track when I thought mrs Perkins would be a better deal!
Apologies for the MASSIVE comment! lol
lol ! Mrs Perkins !
So lets just clear one thing up – do you or do you not now have your dads ponytail from the 80′s ?!
I DO have my dad’s ponytail from the 80′s!!!! Only found it recently when I went through the bits my mum gave me.. Oddly enough he has just moved away from here.. I THINK I may have to send it to him & completely freak him out! I am slightly disturbed that my mum kept it AND THEN chose to give it to me!?
Now there’s a blog post just waiting to be written !!! Maybe you should snap it for a silent sunday !!!
Truly amazing
Us lot are quite the letter writers don’t you know !
This post is absolutely beautiful. I really love the ‘I like you tooth fairy’ at the bottom of Holly’s letter. Just gorgeous!
Love the letters. My faith in the tooth fairy was destroyed when my mum left an IOU note under my pillow as she didn’t have any change. IT WAS IN HER HANDWRITING!!! She insists she can’t remember doing it but how could I forget my illusions being shattered?
Mothers have a lot to answer for ! The betrayal of a mother is a mental scar for life lol my mum told me that if I ate my readybrek up that I would glow like the kid on the advert – and I believed her ! Imagine my utter despair when my best friend informed me I was not glowing after a week !
Brilliant read, my two have only just got a full set each at 3 years old so I’m looking forward to their letters
Link is now working – so sorry about that x
Dear tooth fairy
can you come tonight because i
want a tooth fairies the most special certificate.please and a letter i would be very exsited about tonight please come with the certificate and letter tonight
lots of love
lauren hefferxxx
Oh I remember this post – though I was sure I had commented at the time. I was probably too shy! Super cute.