DD lost her two front teeth this week, two days apart. Her two front permanent teeth had already come down in front of them so we've been waiting ages for the baby ones to come out.
DD puts a note under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy 'Can I have a 2 pound coin please'. UGH, we have no two pound coins.
By the time I find this note it's almost 11pm. I run to the petrol station with my tenner, buy some Dairy Milk Buttons and get four two-pound coins as change. Stick them in the drawer in my bedside cabinet and place one under her pillow, which is really f'ing hard since they got bunk beds and the only step ladder we have is creaky as hell. Phew!!! Off to bed.
The next morning DD comes into my bedroom and after a few seconds is like 'Mummy, are YOU the Tooth Fairy?'. I'm bricking it. Why did she ask this? Oh fluck, I left her note asking for a two pound coin on my desk.
Parent brain kicks into gear. 'OMG she was in my bedroom!!!'. I tell DD to check how much money is in my bedside cabinet and she says 'Three coins' and I get all dramatic 'THREE COINS?!?! She took my two pound coin! I had four in there! It's probably because you asked for a two pound coin and she only carries one pound coins around so she had to think of something really quickly'. I have NO idea what part of my lizard-brain that came from.
That night the Tooth Fairy replaces the two pound coin and leaves a note saying thank you for letting her borrow it. Daughter is relieved and very happy the Tooth Fairy is so polite.
Two nights later, she loses her other front tooth. Luckily I now have a stash of two pound coins because I have a feeling that night's note will ask for the same amount. Bless her, this is the note she leaves for the Tooth Fairy.
'Can I have 2 pound, and don't steal my mom's please'
Awwwww.
Any other equally long and dramatic parent-saves when the kids almost rumble you?