Bedtime, I go into Alex's room to tuck him in.
Alex: Mommy, I FINALLY lost another tooth.
Me: You mean you wiggled it enough that it FINALLY fell off.
Alex (sheepish grin): well yeah.
Then quickly, VERY quickly, he added: Now, you didn't give me my allowance for the past 2 weeks. and now the tooth. So you owe me 9 bucks.
Me: Oh? What does the tooth have anything to do with your allowance?
Alex: Cuz you are the tooth fairy!
Me: Me??? Do I have wings? How do I become the tooth fairy?
Alex: I know you wait til I fall asleep, then take the tooth and throw it away and put the money under my pillow!
Me: I do not throw away your teeth!
Alex: What do you do with it?
Me: I keep them of course!
Alex (with a total smugness of a grin from ear to ear): Aha! See, you ARE the tooth fairy!
Me: Darn it!
Alex, giggling and still grinning widely: now take the tooth and gimme my 9 bucks!
Needless to say, he didn't get his 9 bucks. Cuz that's just NOT how we talk to our parents. :D After I closed his bedroom door after putting him to bed, he's still yelling and giggling "gimme my 9 bucks!!!!"
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