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The Night The Tooth-Fairy DIDN'T Come.

"MUM!!?"

"Yes?"

"I'm hungry, cannive something to eat, cannive a biscuit?"

"No, if you're hungry eat some fruit, theres apples in the fridge"

"I want a biscuit"

"No, if you're hungry have a bit of fruit, theres oodles of apples in the
fridge, eat one, they're good for you"

Small 5 year old daughter stalks off muttering that she wants a biscuit,
doesnt want an apple, wants a biscuit, but I hear the fridge door open and the sound of the crisper being pulled, apple it is.

"MUM!!!!!!!!! MUM!!!!!!!!"

"What?"

"My mouth is bleeding"

"WHAT??!!!.. Did you bite your tongue?"

"No, theres blood on my apple"

"You must have bit your tongue"

"MUUUUUUUUMMMMMM"

"_WHAT_??"

"Theres something funny in my apple"

"Bring it here, let me have a look"

Small child brings apple and hands it's to me, she's right, there is something funny in her apple, it's her first baby tooth fallen out I pull it out of the apple and show it to her.

"Oh WOW... my tooth has fallen out, how much will the tooth-fairy leave me"

"I dont know, you'll have to wait and see tommorrow, when you wake up, put
your tooth in a glass of water on the mantlepiece and the tooth-fairy will leave you some money"

Off goes small person with small bloody tooth and this incredibly cute gap in her smile, deposits tooth in glass and insists that I ring up her Grandmother to tell her ALLL about it, seems that the tooth fairy will stop of at Nannys place as well, at this rate the tooth will get more money than the tooth-fairy has available to give. Small problem arises when small daughter wants me to ring her Daddy and tell him, but since daddy now lives in another state, and didnt leave me a phone number, it was a bit hard, but it leaves her something to tell him when he does ring.

Oldest daughter is most peeved that youngest daughter will get money for her tooth, it seems to escape her notice that she has had plenty of visits from the tooth-fairy herself including one memorable day when the tooth-fairy not only stopped at our place, but her nannys and her Aunts, and left an amazing $5 for one tooth. This time the tooth-fairy is rather relieved, because the tooth fairy is broke, and the tooth-fairy remembers when her teeth were only worth 10 cents from HER tooth-fairy. Inflation is such a growth business these days.

That night the tooth-fairy kept on reminding herself to go put some money in the glass and remove the tooth, all through football, all through this great Manga movie, the tooth-fairy kept on reminding herself to go put some money in the glass, all through IRC and afterwards on the phone, the tooth-fairy kept on reminding herself to go put some money in the glass and remove the tooth, right on the verge of falling asleep the tooth-fairy was reminding herself to go put some money in the glass and remove the tooth.

In fact when she woke up the first thing the tooth-fairy did was remind
herself to go put some money in the glass and remove the tooth, in fact the
tooth-fairy was just getting out of bed when...

"MUMMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYY!!!!! THE TOOTH-FAIRY DIDN'T COME!!!!!!"

darn, smallest child was awake before the tooth-fairy...

It's just as well I think quick on my feet, walking out to the loungeroom
clutching the money in my hand, I told small child to go check her bedroom
just-in-case, while she was gone, the tooth-fairy quickly flew in put the
money behind the glass and departed, leaving a trail of fairy-dust, when small child came back in I told her to check the mantlepiece again, she found the fairydust and the money and was most enthralled when I told her that the tooth-fairy leaves invisible money, that a Mummy has to touch to make it visible.

Phew... Now all I have to do is convince the eldest that she didnt really see what she thought she saw.

(c) Teddy 1996