The Tooth Fairy Visits

Yesterday Annika lost her second tooth.  (For historical purposes, I will point out that at the same time, Autumn is gaining a few new teeth. Her third tooth poked through while she was at our house last week and apparently another one this weekend, with more on the way.)



But back to Annika, her tooth came out while we were having veggie burgers for lunch. She took a bite then noticed a tooth in the bite mark. (Thank goodness she noticed!)

This morning she found a note on her door.



It says,

"Monday, January 23, 2012

Dear Annika,

I'm sorry but I could not deliver your money tonight. Your room is very messy so I did not think I could get to your bed and find your tooth. I will try again tomorrow night.

Your friend,
Kavira Claus
(The Tooth Fairy)"

As you can imagine, this note has prompted a lot of conversation around the house today.  The note itself is about an inch and a half long and inch wide.  Annika felt that since the paper and text were very small, the tooth fairy must clearly be small. But then she was mystified by why the tooth fairy's scotch tape was not similarly small.  Since the note was taped to her door at about handle height, Annika made the assumption that the tooth fairy must be able to fly. Which lead her to question why the tooth fairy couldn't fly over her stuff to get to her bed. Also, she wondered how the tooth fairy knew in advance that her room was going to be messy, since this note seems to have been printed on a printer. They theorized that perhaps she had been informed by Santa, assuming of course that the name "Kavira Claus" means that she has some link to Santa. Many details and nuances were discussed and countless theories were thrown around. Overall, Annika seems to have been quite delighted with her note from the tooth fairy.

We ended up having a busy afternoon. As soon as the kids got off the bus, we went straight to picking up Kardynn and then came back immediately to Odyssey of the Mind and then it was time for supper and straight to bed after that.  So in Annika's defense, she never really had an opportunity to tidy up her room.  She had to think outside the box, if she wanted to get money tonight.  She informed her dad that she was going to get around these setbacks by leaving the tooth at her door.  Dwight said, "How will the tooth fairy know to find your tooth there?"  Simple. She was going to put it under a pillow, of course.