I will openly admit I'm a stress case in a lot of ways. In things that I can't control or in "firsts" I overthink it to a point of no return. So about three months ago when Emma was at the dentist and he said she had two loose teeth and two growing in behind it I jumped into action. (I'm also afraid someday she will discover this blog so keep that in mind while reading — another bit of that overthinking problem I have). So yeah, I called up the tooth fairy reminding her that I was about to have a situation on my hands that I was stressed about so I'd need to get my hands on that special tooth case and be at the ready for any situation. After all this was going to be a big deal. First tooth in 6 years. Damn I remember when she was endlessly chewing on Sophie the giraffe in the grocery store and when I took it out I spotted two little white spots those same two teeth growing in! Man this is hard. So speed up to months of poking, prodding, pulling, pushing, a little crying, and a lot of stress with this tooth. Still nothing. I mean we ended school, started summer, kept pulling and the tooth just wasn't coming out. The teeth behind were coming in!! Still nope. In fairness I also wanted be sure I was completely ready for this situation. Like in no way could I be drinking rose if the tooth fairy was about to descend on my house or could it be when I had a stressful day coming up at work because if that tooth fairy woke up Emma well that would be an fng nightmare right? So the days continued to go on and finally when that thing was hanging by a thread Nana pulled it — and all day I stressed about how the night would go. I would have to let the tooth fairy know that Emma takes a 10 pm pee and not to do anything before the first bathroom break. I'd also have to be prepared that if the tooth fairy woke Emma up by accident she must be armed with appropriate answers. What a stressful job this fairy has.
So many questions rolled through my mind:
What note does she write? How long should it be? How much money is the tooth fairy giving out these days? Should this tooth go under the pillow or on the nightstand?

Settle Marcell this is not rocket science and she is not the first child to lose a tooth and she certainly wouldn't be the first kid to wake up finding the "tooth fairy" venturing into her room. It could all be explained. Easily. After all Mom's have answers for everything right Dad?

So the adventure began. Emma gladly went to bed with her very tiny tooth tucked in a very cool shiny tooth holder under her pillow and I waited. And stressed. And waited. Asking Raj too many unnecessary things that he casually ignored.

Then I went to work having the tooth fairy get $6 for the first tooth for our 6 year old. My reasoning was that the first tooth was pretty special. The $5 and $1 were glittered up and the fairy left an awesome note as well.

Much to my surprise the fairy nailed it and the very next morning around 6:30 am rather than come to our room we heard Emma get into bed with Maia to start telling and showing what the magical tooth fairy did. Leaving my heart so full. The very next day Emma turned 6. So her week was full of so much magic and today she got pierced ears (more on that later) and lost yet another tooth. Tooth fairy stress starts over tonight. I think she'll bring a silver dollar and a cool receipt! And tomorrow we will be two teeth less with a smile as big as you can imagine.