A Summer of Firsts: Part 2 (The Toothfairy Visits The Whalen Home!!!)

On the way home from Canada, we stopped at McDonald's to eat and Denis and Amelie were wrestling in the grass. Amelie's head hit Denis' chin, causing one of his lower teeth to come loose. Denis' first loose tooth!! He was very excited and wanted to know each day how much longer before his tooth would fall out. . . well on August 12, 2011, Denis lost his first tooth while eating a rice krispie treat that he, Amelie, and I made together earlier that day! He was so excited!!! That night we prepared for the tooth fairy by putting his tooth in the pocket of the "Lait de dent" mouse (French version of the tooth fairy). As we were determining where we were going to lay the mouse to make sure the toothfairy could see it, we noticed that Amelie was laying in bed very still, almost as if she was paralyzed, and her beautiful big blue eyes were wide open. When Papa asked her what was wrong, she looked at him and said, "Je ne veux pas qu'elle vienne!" ("I don't want her to come!") She didn't like the idea that a little fairy was going to come flying into her room and over her bed just to get Denis' tooth. The idea of it totally freaked her out. I went to hug her and I could feel her little heart beating so fast! We told Amelie that we'd put the mouse upstairs so the tooth-fairy wouldn't come in their bedroom (they were sharing the bedroom in the basement for the summer since it was too hot upstairs in their regular bedroom.) NO, that wasn't good enough for her. The mouse had to be put outside so the tooth-fairy wouldn't come in the house at all!! So, after we told her that we would do this, she finally was calm enough to fall asleep. (I told Denis that I'd be sure to move the mouse back in the room so the tooth-fairy would be sure to see him.)

 The next morning, Denis found lots of surprises!! The tooth-fairy left him a little box with his tooth in it (to keep) a note written just for him, a book, a toothbrush, and $2 in the mouse's pocket!!) Denis was very excited!! He said he can't wait until he loses his next tooth!