That Time the Tooth Fairy Visited on Christmas Day
A story about lost teeth and high expectations.
5:54 am:
“Hey Dad”, she said..
“You’re six minutes too early”, I replied. 1
“I know” she replied. “ I lost a tooth”.
Well, that’s worth waking up for! Just the other day I wrote about the chances of the Tooth fairy and Santa Claus meeting , and I doubt they met I do know that the tooth fairy’s pager went off on Christmas Eve that she needed to add an address to her itinerary.
By then it was 6am and we went down and unwrapped and squealed with joy at the gifts given and received, so a few notes about this years gifts and what works and what didn't.
Way, way, way, wayyyyy back in July the child mentioned that she wanted a Nintendo Switch 2. “Oof, those are $500”, I told BW. She knew, but there was a waiting list so we thought we should better get to it and place the order then. We could not believe we were at “video game age” already, but here we are. Long story short, - the Nintendo has been hiding in our bedroom closet for months.
The child was overwhelmed by the gift I think. She stopped asking for it about September and moved towards asking for a small cheap remote control car. She did not want to go near it until earlier today which was over 24 hours since it was unwrapped - and when we did finally get it set up for her it was too much stimulation and frustration all mixed in into one overwhelming ball of confusion for her pretty little mind.
These companies make it sound and look so easy on the 30 second commercials but these toys can be overwhelming for little minds even though they’ve been marketed to for months that they have to have this. Heck if somebody handed me a brand new phone with a new OS and about 12 buttons I never saw before - I would probably start crying and running to my room too. I don’t blame her frustration with this thing.
What we’ve done to fix this is we’ve called one of her friends up the street who’s more into this gaming stuff to come over and give both of us some training on how to play the expensive video game system we just bought. The child and I will be attending Nintendo boot camp - taught by our neighborhood six-year-old.
If I had to rate this gift right now, right here: 2.5 stars. This will probably change, but for now it’s been a bit of a disappointment.The tiny little remote control car. This was the biggest hit. As we are apt to do, the child and I were surfing Amazon for kid’s toys when she saw that and mentioned she liked it, so after she was gone I added it to the cart and a day or two later it was at the door.
You guys! This thing has been the toy of 2025. She has named it “Taylor Swifts’s Car” and this thing spins and flips and turns and has pretty good battery life and and the controller only has a few buttons. Nintendo, take note. Simple is good.
She loves it.
A 5 star rating, easy.
A cheap yoga mat. Mom does Yoga and from time to time the child joins her in the basement, but we were down a yoga mat. Of course, this mat hasn’t been used for yoga. But it has been used for a pretend show and general rolling around on the floor. It also makes a great ramp for the “Taylor Swift Car Above”
An easy 4 stars, even if it doesn’t get used for the intended purpose.
There were a few other gifts, like some pencils and paper for artwork and of course some much needed clothes, but our living room does not look like the returns department at a Whole Foods and so we’re calling Christmas of 2025 a win, even if she’s down a tooth and we’re lukewarm on the big gift to date.
But she’s up five bucks! The going rate for the tooth fairy is five bucks2 at our house.
Keep Smiling,
TH and Co.
The rule at our house is you’re not allowed to get out of bed until 6am on Christmas morning.
Coincidentally, the same price as a monthly subscription. cough