I didn't think Kaylin was quite old enough to lose teeth. But apparently she is. She lost her first tooth at 4 years and 9 months old. She knows older kids who have lost teeth, she's seen a TV show or two about kids losing teeth, but it scared her when she discovered that she had a loose tooth.
Here's the timeline:
Saturday 8:30 pm: Kaylin gets out of bed to tell us that she has a loose tooth. This thing looks like it's about to fall out.
Saturday 9:00 pm: I do a quick search on Pinterest for a tooth fairy pillow and find the perfect one. Thankfully I have all of the supplies since JoAnn's is now closed and this tooth is seriously ready to fall out. I start working on it.
Sunday 8:00 am: Kaylin and I watch a couple of PBS Kids cartoon clips about the tooth fairy.
Sunday 10:00 am: I finish the tooth fairy pillow.
Sunday 12:15 pm: Kaylin is eating a sandwich. She says, "Mom, what's this red thing on my sandwich?" I look at it and ask her to open her mouth. The tooth is gone. We look around for the tooth, but it's not there. She must have swallowed it. So now we have a 4 year old who is not only scared to lose her tooth, but now she doesn't have her tooth to leave for the tooth fairy. Plus she isn't liking the idea that there is a tooth in her stomach. I quickly explain that she can write a note to the tooth fairy and she will still leave her a prize.
She refused to let me take a picture.
What???? We've known about this loose tooth for 16 hours, most of that time was spent sleeping. The tooth fairy brings a special present when you lose your first tooth, in case you didn't know. In case you weren't paying attention, she lost her tooth on SUNDAY. I'm Mormon and we don't shop on Sunday. Thankfully I'm somewhat of a planner and I had a present I was planning to give her for her birthday that would be perfect. She wanted the tooth fairy to bring her a tooth brush, I didn't have one of those. But I did have princess toothpaste, which proved to be quite exciting.
We went to Grammy and Grandpa's for my birthday dinner and Grammy helped Kaylin write a note to the tooth fairy explaining her situation.
That night we left the note in her new tooth fairy pillow.
Monday morning Kaylin was so excited when she woke up and found what the tooth fairy left her. And she finally let me take a picture of her missing tooth.
Here's the timeline:
Saturday 8:30 pm: Kaylin gets out of bed to tell us that she has a loose tooth. This thing looks like it's about to fall out.
Saturday 9:00 pm: I do a quick search on Pinterest for a tooth fairy pillow and find the perfect one. Thankfully I have all of the supplies since JoAnn's is now closed and this tooth is seriously ready to fall out. I start working on it.
Sunday 8:00 am: Kaylin and I watch a couple of PBS Kids cartoon clips about the tooth fairy.
Sunday 10:00 am: I finish the tooth fairy pillow.
Sunday 12:15 pm: Kaylin is eating a sandwich. She says, "Mom, what's this red thing on my sandwich?" I look at it and ask her to open her mouth. The tooth is gone. We look around for the tooth, but it's not there. She must have swallowed it. So now we have a 4 year old who is not only scared to lose her tooth, but now she doesn't have her tooth to leave for the tooth fairy. Plus she isn't liking the idea that there is a tooth in her stomach. I quickly explain that she can write a note to the tooth fairy and she will still leave her a prize.
She refused to let me take a picture.
What???? We've known about this loose tooth for 16 hours, most of that time was spent sleeping. The tooth fairy brings a special present when you lose your first tooth, in case you didn't know. In case you weren't paying attention, she lost her tooth on SUNDAY. I'm Mormon and we don't shop on Sunday. Thankfully I'm somewhat of a planner and I had a present I was planning to give her for her birthday that would be perfect. She wanted the tooth fairy to bring her a tooth brush, I didn't have one of those. But I did have princess toothpaste, which proved to be quite exciting.
We went to Grammy and Grandpa's for my birthday dinner and Grammy helped Kaylin write a note to the tooth fairy explaining her situation.
That night we left the note in her new tooth fairy pillow.
Monday morning Kaylin was so excited when she woke up and found what the tooth fairy left her. And she finally let me take a picture of her missing tooth.
Pet Shops and princess toothpaste! The tooth fairy also left a dollar bill, but that wasn't as exciting.
She played with the pet shops and toothpaste ALL DAY. We did leave the house a time or two, so she took a couple of breaks. But the pet shops were a hit.
Here's her tooth fairy pillow:
Here's her tooth fairy pillow:
6 comments:
Oh my goodness, Brianne. You are the cutest, most thoughtful, most creative mama that ever existed. She's going to remember that forever. What a darling pillow. And princess toothpaste for a lost tooth?! Perfect prize. I can't believe she lost a tooth already! Didn't you just have her?!
You did an awesome job, considering that you had almost zero time to plan for that! I love the pillow!
That tooth pillow is super cute. It's a much better idea than having to reach under a kid's pillow to get to the tooth. Good thing you had some fabric and toys on hand already! :) You would've had to break the sabbath! :)
I'm with Carly on this one. Your girls are so lucky to have such a fun, creative mommy. Congrats to Kaylin!
I'm very impressed we would get a $1 no more we were happy with that too. We also left the tooth in an envelope not a pillow with a pouch.
you are so cute Brianne! I tooth pillow - awesome! That is so funny - the whole situation. Kaylin did show me her space when the kids went to school on Thursday (or Tues?) I can't believe she already lost a tooth! sounds like it turned out well for her though! ;)
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