i need to give a little background info before i tell one of our most recent stories.
first of all, the tooth fairy leaves gold dollars for teeth at our house.
second bit of information, 2 lost teeth ago, drew woke up and the tooth fairy had not left him anything in exchange for his tooth. (i heard she was REALLY busy that night! DOH!) stacey and i figured there HAD to be an explanation - so we thought (and acted) quickly. we told drew not to worry - but that he better go check the pirate ship in his room! those pirates can get really sneaky - and we all know pirates LOVE gold! i bet THEY stole the gold dollar from under his pillow! (wink wink) drew went and looked - sure enough - there was the gold dollar sitting on their ship!
which brings me to the day before we left for hawaii ...
drew lost a tooth the night before we left. we were all talking about it as he was getting ready for bed. knowing that the tooth fairy wasn't expecting drew to lose his tooth and had emptied her stash of gold dollars - we told drew that we were really curious what the pirates would do if he gave THEM his tooth - instead of the tooth fairy! he thought that sounded like an EXCELLENT plan! SO ... that night he left the envelope that was holding his tooth on the pirate ship in his room.
he woke up the next morning to find this ...
the pirates left him a 2 dollar bill!!
those crazy pirates!! they out did the tooth fairy!
SO ... that morning ... we're on the plane to hawaii. the lady sitting next to drew spent quite a bit of time talking with him. she noticed that he was missing some teeth and asked him about them. he told her that he had just lost one the day before. she said "OH COOL! what did you get from the tooth fairy?"
drew's response? "i didn't give it to the tooth fairy. i gave it to the pirates."
that was one of those moments where she looked at me wondering what in the world drew was talking about - i looked at her and just smiled - explaining why our kids now plan to leave all of their teeth to the pirates that pay well was much more of a story than i wanted to tell at that moment.
i have since realized, however, that i need to come up with a short explanation because the same conversation has happened 3 times since and the confused looks always bounce back at me:)
first of all, the tooth fairy leaves gold dollars for teeth at our house.
second bit of information, 2 lost teeth ago, drew woke up and the tooth fairy had not left him anything in exchange for his tooth. (i heard she was REALLY busy that night! DOH!) stacey and i figured there HAD to be an explanation - so we thought (and acted) quickly. we told drew not to worry - but that he better go check the pirate ship in his room! those pirates can get really sneaky - and we all know pirates LOVE gold! i bet THEY stole the gold dollar from under his pillow! (wink wink) drew went and looked - sure enough - there was the gold dollar sitting on their ship!
which brings me to the day before we left for hawaii ...
drew lost a tooth the night before we left. we were all talking about it as he was getting ready for bed. knowing that the tooth fairy wasn't expecting drew to lose his tooth and had emptied her stash of gold dollars - we told drew that we were really curious what the pirates would do if he gave THEM his tooth - instead of the tooth fairy! he thought that sounded like an EXCELLENT plan! SO ... that night he left the envelope that was holding his tooth on the pirate ship in his room.
he woke up the next morning to find this ...
the pirates left him a 2 dollar bill!!
those crazy pirates!! they out did the tooth fairy!
SO ... that morning ... we're on the plane to hawaii. the lady sitting next to drew spent quite a bit of time talking with him. she noticed that he was missing some teeth and asked him about them. he told her that he had just lost one the day before. she said "OH COOL! what did you get from the tooth fairy?"
drew's response? "i didn't give it to the tooth fairy. i gave it to the pirates."
that was one of those moments where she looked at me wondering what in the world drew was talking about - i looked at her and just smiled - explaining why our kids now plan to leave all of their teeth to the pirates that pay well was much more of a story than i wanted to tell at that moment.
i have since realized, however, that i need to come up with a short explanation because the same conversation has happened 3 times since and the confused looks always bounce back at me:)
2 comments:
Oh...that was great!!!
Very creative idea, Mrs. Pirate!! :-)
oooh, pirates. what a hoot!!!!!
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