Tooth Fairy

With all the things that my kids love and believe, I'm often surprised at just how magical they make everything, but how serious they can be. Matthew informed me recently that there's no such thing as Santa Claus, Reed gets him his Christmas gifts. The older boys have teased me about the Easter Bunny for years. (Where do you hide your ears and tail, mom)?

Now it's the tooth fairy. Matthew and CrystalLynn lost their first tooth this past week, (Darrian and Michael always lost teeth at the same time, makes me believe they really are my little brown hair brown eyed, all knees and elbows twins). Matthew put his tooth in a plastic bag under his pillow. (At our house we leave teeth in an envelope on the kitchen counter so that she doesn't wake anyone up trying to dig under pillows). He wanted to try and catch her. He didn't.

Crystal put her tooth in an envelope under her pillow, and this morning she found money under her pillow, and the envelope was torn open on the kitchen counter, her tooth missing. I said maybe the tooth fairy had to turn on a light to check and make sure there really was a tooth, and did it in the kitchen so she wouldn't wake anyone up. Crystal was ok with that.

I understand that at my sister-in-laws house you leave the tooth in a cup of water. You can dye the water with food coloring, and the tooth fairy wears a tutu the same color as the water in the cup. In the morning the colored water is gone the tooth is gone and the money is left in the cup.

So followed a heated debate between the 4 older boys about the believability of the tooth fairy. One of them swears he's seen her...like a twinkling star zipping through the air...another is adamant that the tooth fairy is a man, and he wears a toga, not a tutu. (He should be called the Tooth Master, fairies are gay)!

In the middle of all this I have one child determined to sleep on the couch this Christmas and see Santa. "I've heard his sleigh bells, I've seen the magic snowball, (more on the snowball later) but I've never seen Santa." Now to convince them all that Santa simply doesn't deliver gifts while anyone is in the room. He likes his anonymity.