Friday, September 11, 2009

Toothfairy can't open plastic ziplock bags!!

Can you believe it? Both Anna and Jenny lost a tooth on the same day! They were so excited to tell me after I picked them up from the boys and girls club yesterday that they both had very loose tooth, the same tooth (I believe it is their molar). I did not give much thought of it until about an hour later at soccer practice, they both handed me their lost tooth together. Afraid to loose them, I put them into two separate small zip lock bags. I told them to put them under their pillows later when we get home. That was the last time I saw them.

This morning on our way to school. They both told me that the toothfairy did not come last night!! Oh boy! What I am going to say? This Toothfairy forgot my girls again! I wasn't sure if I could cover up this mess the Toothfairy has created. I wanted to say there is no such thing as toothfairy. It is a simple mistake Mom made. But that would require more explanations and answer more "why's". Maybe something in between the truth and the fairy? I had to act on quickly to avoid any suspsions. So I said "Maybe because you are from China and there are no such thing as toothfairy in China. So it will take some time for the Toothfairy to figure things out....". I was not proud of myself for saying this. Luckily Anna turned that idea down immediately by saying "That is not true. I got money from her before. Last time I got a dollar!". Now I had to back on the track with her again. Let's do some troubleshooting to see what went wrong last night. So I started to ask a lot questions. "Are you sure the tooth is still there?", "Did you look carefully?", " what? Jenny put another old tooth in? that would really confuse the toothfairy!", "Did you take it out of the plastic bag?", "What? you did not take them out of the plastic bag? you have to take it out of the plastic bag because toothfairy did not know how to open the ziplock bag!".....

At this point, both Anna and Jenny were so quiet and thinking. While I was still so afraid to be caught of lying or something, Joshua came to the rescue. He said "that is it!! the plastic bag! why did I think about it. I always hid the tooth and hoped the toothfairy could not find it, but it never worked because I did not use the plastic bag! Once I wraped it in a bath rope and the toothfairy still found it! If I had put it into a plastic bag, even she found it, she would not be able to take it out!"

Thank God we arrived the girls school by then. They both promised to take their tooth out of the bag and I promised that the toothfairy will come tonight!

Should I send the toothfairy a reminder just in case?

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