The Tooth Fairy Came To Visit
May 22 2008
Our 5 ½ year old son just lost his first tooth yesterday and the tooth fairy paid a visit to our house last night for the very first time. He lost it at school and had it haphazardly carefully wrapped up in a paper napkin when I picked him up.
He was so excited to tell me about it! He held the mangled paper napkin and kept fussing with it in the car. We came inside and I opened the napkin and it wasn’t there! I was probably more upset than him and asked him if he thought he dropped it at school and he assured me he hadn’t. I kept asking him a million questions and he said it was probably in the car. I was nervous that it wouldn’t be there and I would have to deal with a very upset 5 year old (and huge feelings of mom-guilt), but he climbed into the door and he looked around his booster seat and he found it. Talk about breathing a million sighs of relief!
He didn’t want to tell his dad (who was out of town) about it until we picked him up at the airport last night. And even then he wanted to keep the tooth at the house until we got back from the airport.
It was a very exciting milestone in our house! Not being sure what the going rate for the tooth fairy was, I put the question out on twitter and got some great replies:
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LifeCandy @aruni – you’re lucky! my son (at 5) surfs and blogs regularly – he would’ve found the tooth rate himself eventually 🙂 |
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thomsinger @aruni A SB Anthony or Sacagawea dollar is what the tooth fairly leaves for the Singer Girls. Unique & we get to lecture about strong women |
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dpenna @aruni hope I’m not too late: I gave $5 for the first, but after that $1.50 is all she gets 🙂 |
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prCarrD @aruni I know a tooth fairy who leaves $10 per tooth! Crazy! |
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wendywood @aruni – my son just lost his first tooth and the tooth fairy left him a dollar as well. According to my son, going rate should be $100 each |
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NikkiPilkington @aruni When my daughter was young, 50p (a dollar?) so i think you have to allow for inflation 😉 |
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BeckyDMBR @aruni Not sure about the going rate, but congrats! 😉 |
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LifeCandy @aruni – a quick online search last autumn when DS lost two at the same time turned up $2-$5/tooth! I was stunned! |
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abunslife @aruni Tooth fairy left 5 bucks for my son’s first tooth a few weeks ago, but she will leave a dollar from now on. Congrats! |
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mgenovese @aruni My son just lost his first tooth last month. We were told $2 = going rate. So far he’s earned $4. Lots of teeth left though..hmm.. |
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dpenna @aruni OH congrats on it being the first! Be sure to take a pic of the empty hole! |
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dpenna @aruni We are doing the same tonight – for the eighth time! How many do they lose anyway? LOL |
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infinitypro @aruni Wait on the post, but don’t forget the tooth fairy! 🙂 |
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zenaweist @aruni don’t forget to do the tooth fairy thing. We’ve forgotten a few times! DOH! |
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ShamaHyder @aruni-maybe tomorrow. sounds like a fun post! |
We ended up giving him 4 quarters which he seemed very happy with. He put them in his piggy bank right away. I asked him if he wanted to buy something with it or save it and he said ‘save it’ which made me happy. I’m not sure what he’s saving it for though.
His other bottom tooth is loose, so I’m guessing it will fall out soon. I’m not sure how long it takes for all the baby teeth to fall out, but he could make quite a bit from the tooth fairy by then. 😀
Author: Aruni | Filed under: Just For Fun, parenting, random stuff | Tags: baby teeth, baby tooth, lost tooth, tooth fairy, twitter | 8 Comments »
I’m SO glad someone else mentioned forgetting a time or two! We had to lie once and tell the little one the tooth fairy probably already had made her rounds because she went to bed too late. Also once we didn’t have any cash/change on hand (she lost it late at night) so we again lied and said the tooth fairy needs more notice than an hour. LOL The things we do as parents!
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I want some of those golden $1 coins that one of the members of the Twitterati mentioned!
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What a big moment in life! The picture says it all — he looks so proud. 🙂
Your going rate of $1 (4 quarters or a dollar coin) sounds just right.
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@Diane – I have a feeling that we might forget a time or two as he loses more teeth and then our daughter starts doing the same in a couple of years.
@Erin – It would be cool to have those golden coins!
@Kristin – Yeah, I felt $1 was good. Plus he has a piggy bank that he likes to put coins in, so he enjoyed it. 🙂
I wanted to make it a dollar, but the ex gave them $2 when they were at his house, so I felt I had to stick to that when they were here….
Great pic, by the way!
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Awww… enjoy being the “tooth fairy” for as long as possible. My 10-year old asked me a couple of months ago, “Mom, who is the tooth fairy?”. Well, I quickly yanked him into the bathroom so his nosey 9-year old sister and 8-year old brother didn’t hear the question. After moments of going back-and-forth inside my head I decided to tell him the truth – if he PROMISED he wouldn’t tell.
Well… it doesn’t end there. A couple of hours later he corners me on the couch, “Mom, who’s Santa, who’s the Easter Bunny?” …Needless to say my heart was broken in a million little pieces as I began to tell the truth –outing these magical beings — one-by-one.
So, enjoy these precious moments of lost teeth (forgotten tooth fairy visits included), Easter Bunny visits, and Jolly St. Nick… because the “moment of truth comes all too soon”.
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Oh, I have massive “failure to fairy” posts from my daughter. My son is convinced he’ll be losing some soon, but no way – they are all in tight, poor kid! I went the “Golden Dollar” Sacajewea coin route, since it seemed special enough. My NYC sister tells me that some of her kindergarden son’s classmates get up to $20 per tooth!
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@Carole – I guess it’s hard to tell a kid that the tooth fairy had to cut her gift to kids when there is already a precedent. 🙂
@Michelle – Oh no…what a hard day for him and you. 🙁 Hopefully he doesn’t tell his younger siblings too soon.
@Velma – $20/tooth is crazy if you ask me! I don’t think I’ve seen these gold dollar coins that a few people mentioned.