How did the tooth fairy take away Santa?

[seelove]

Seriously, my kid is pretty smart, but he has no common sense. I mean really, he is almost 8 and still doesn't remember to look both ways before crossing the street. Now, this is the same kid that was reading independently at 3, but didn't learn to tie his shoes until 2 months ago!

Anywho, so he loses his front tooth and confirms that the tooth fairy will be coming... "Of course!" we reply. This is where everything gets dicey. I give dh the tooth fairy duty that night since he was deployed the last tooth losing time. He sets his alarm to 2am so that our son will be sleeping(hopefully heavy) and he can do the switcharoo with the cash.  Well, 2am rolls around and he goes in there trips over some legos, knocks his knee on the bed and says a mild curse. Needless to say, the boy wakes up and demands to know what is going on. By then I have gotten up and say that we heard something in his room and we were just checking on him. The boy checks his tooth, we say goodnight and go back to bed. Well, then dh figures that he will do it when he gets up for work at 4:30am, however, the man didn't learn the first time around and pretty much has some sort of deja vu thing where he trips over the legos, knocks his knee on the bed and so on....SHIT!! I am thinking, but this time I stay in bed and wait for dh to explain to our son what he is doing in his room..AGAIN.

So at this point, no tooth fairy. When my son gets up he is bummed that the tooth fairy didn't leave any money and didn't take the tooth, I try to smooth things over by saying that maybe the tooth fairy couldn't find it ( that did happen once) and he should try again. Well, that day I figure "what the hell" and go do the switcharoo while the boy is at school. I don't say anything to him or dh. The boy gets home and doesn't say anything either which I figure he 1. forgot all about the tooth(very likely for our boy)  or 2. Hasn't found the tooth fairy money or  3. Has found the money but doesn't want to tell me for some reason. So I go about my evening until the boy comes into my room and says matter of factly that he knows me and his dad are the tooth fairy. I am devastated! I thought I was going to cry, but I put my big girl panties on and we discussed why we pretended there was a tooth fairy. At this point, I ask, " Is there any other things or situations you want to talk about" you know, good mom questions. He says no and goes on. I am giving myself a pat on the back for handling everything so well.

The next morning, the boy gets up sits down on the couch next to me and tells me he knows there is no Santa either. Now really, how did he make the connection? I even asked him the night before. Well, once again I agree, do the good mom speech, but I needed to add, "tell your sisters and no presents for you. Ever" part too. I am at this juncture confused that he found the connection, but also surprised and I guess a little proud that he does have common sense afterall.

This is sadly not the case. Basically, some stupid Kmart commercial was where he got the whole no Santa. I am not sure which one, not sure how, not sure why, but there it is. And the weirdest part is that he doesn't see any connection either. mmmmm strange. huh?

[youngmom2three]

Nov. 30, 2008 at 10:32 PM

Sooo sad when they figure it all out. Could be worse, some darn kid at Parents Night Out already told my son that parents are really the tooth fairy. I mean, couldn't they at least let the 5 yr old have the experience before they ruin it for him. Its all good though, because I did the TOTALLY MATURE thing and told him that boy was lying and didn't know what he was talking about....lol!  BTW, do not assume he knows that Easter Bunny is you guys...

[ashandmasysmom]

Dec. 1, 2008 at 2:37 AM

Aww how sad that he finally figured it out. Hopefully he doesnt tell Ashlyn but if he does oh well. I know I will have to tell her sometime.