My son lost a tooth at school the other day. He has been so excited about the prospect of losing this tooth because he is saving up to buy a Wii and this pearly white will get him several steps closer to his goal. He excitedly told all his classmates about it and wouldn’t you know it, one of his know it all classmates told him that there was no such thing as “The Tooth Fairy”. What a kill joy.
Just a little bit of trivial information, we didn’t have a “Tooth Fairy” growing up; being of Spanish descent we had “Ratoncito Pérez” (The little Mouse Perez). He didn’t have wings or a wand, but his tooth to coin exchange policy was exactly the same. My father, who didn’t like cutesy names re-dubbed him “Perez the Rat”, which tarnished the mystique somewhat, but I digress.
So my son came home at the end of the school day and recounted the story of how he lost his tooth to his mom. Apparently he was chewing gum when the tooth came loose and it got wrapped in the gum. Mommy asked to take a look at his tooth and found black marks in the root of the tooth and was really worried that he had a really bad cavity. My son alleviated her fears and told her that a bit of gum got stuck in the crevasses of the tooth’s root and he took it upon himself to clean it out with the only sharp object he was allowed to use at school…..a freshly sharpened pencil. Needless to say the graphite took the place of the gum and the rest is history.
Mom decided to have a little fun at son’s expense and said “But Honey, the Tooth Fairy does not pay for teeth with cavities. I don’t know if she’ll even accept that one because it looks like a cavity.” (I know, I know. That was just mean). Minutes later my wife found my son in the bathroom, brushing the graphite off his tooth.
I swear, kids are just way too funny.
You never know… the tooth fairy might have a side-job recycling graphite. Someone’s gotta reclaim it to put in mechanical pencils, right?
I bet that tooth earns your son double!
- Julia
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Perez the Rat is hysterical! Good luck saving for the Wii.
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@WeaselMomma –
In an effort to teach him to save his money I told him that I would pay for half the Wii if he could come up with the other half. I’m amazed he hasn’t knocked out all his baby teeth with a mallet yet.
@Julia –
SHHHHH! Don’t give him any ideas!
As I was reading, I was afraid you were going to say he wrenched it out of his gums with a pencil, hence the graphite.
Tooth losing is always a memorable occasion, especially if it’s lucrative.
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@Tom –
Unfortunately/Fortunately he’s not that brave.
Rancito Perez and Perez the rat are both hilarious. I hope spanish heritage is not required becasue I have to use that in some way. It is such a more real version of the fairy tale. There are no fairies son but if you are lucky a dirty rat will carry off your tooth.
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@Otter –
By all means, feel free. Mi ratoncito es su ratoncito (My mouse is your mouse).
I love the Perez the Mouse story. My daughter tried to pull one over on the Tooth Fairy once by tucking one of our old dog’s teeth under her pillow. She got a Milk Bone, but no money.
I hope your son got his prize from his Mouse.
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I don’t know what’s funnier. The graphite filled tooth or Tara’s dog tooth story!
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@Tara R. –
That…..is…..awesome! I love it when people have a sense of humor.
@Treemama -
I think the Dog Tooth story is pretty damn funny.
A graphite filled tooth! ROFL! This post is great!
Believe it or not, my little girl lost a tooth this week as well. Both of her front teeth are missing now, which is just hilarious to see. To my surprise, she wrote a note to the tooth ferry, and placed it under her pillow with her tooth last night. Now….. the spelling of a kindergartner has much to be desired, but it basically said that she loved the tooth ferry.
I’ll keep that little note in my scrapbook for a long time.
Thanks for the education on Ratoncito Perez, that’s a new one on me.
-Al
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My 7 year old daughter lost another tooth this past week and went to bed in hopes of the tooth fairy visiting while a sleep. My wife and I went to bed and woke up realizing that I did not go into her room and remove the tooth in the baggie and replace with a couple of bucks. I quickly ran to the kitchen cabinet and grabbed a baggie quietly placed the money inside and walked to her room 7:15 am. I opened her door and to the ruffle of her sitting up franticly looking for the money, as she lifted the pillow and looked to the left I with cat like quickness placed the new baggie with the money to the right of her pillow. “THERE IT IS”, whew……dodged a bullet on that one. Thank God she is so innocent to question not seeing it before.
Love the spin on making him sweat about about the tooth fairy.
@Famliyforce5 –
Been there, done that…..less than a month ago, actually.