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Dear Toothfairy, What do you do with our teeth?

another tooth fell out yesterday (a canine).  this time instead of asking me point blank if i'm the one leaving the money under her pillow for her, mimi decided to write a letter to the tooth fairy instead.  i thought about writing a response back, but after thinking about it, i figured the magic was in the elusiveness...once you know how it all works, the magic is gone, right?  so i didnt leave a response.  was that wrong?  not sure what i would have said anyway.  internet searches revealed that the teeth were used to build the tooth fairy's castle or they are ground up to be made into fairy dust or they became stars in the sky or they were kept to be given to babies who needed teeth.  all the responses seemed kind of creepy to me...  but in the end, i guess it's no creepier than mommy keeping her baby teeth and umbilical cord stump.  heh heh.
of course, that was the evening that neither rob nor i had anything smaller than a $20 in the house.  rob was gonna leave her two dollars that he was able to dig up, but because of that P.S. in her note, he went around and unearthed three Sacagawea dollar coins to add to it.  ends up that was the right thing to do.  she was THRILLED with the coins.

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  1. Mommy HuangMay 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM

    dang! five bucks for a tooth? whatever happened to the days of a quarter or two under the pillow? perhaps you should have crafted a response about the tooth fairy using fairy magic to turn the teeth into the money that she leaves for all the kids. haha.

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  2. sangMay 6, 2011 at 10:47 AM

    the price of gas used to be .62 cents when i was mimi's age, but just last week i paid almost $5 at the pump! there's inflation for you...the toothfairy goes with the times! :) i think my problem with all the ideas about what happens to the teeth grosses me out because it all involves something happening to your discarded teeth...is that gross only to me?

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