lousy old tooth fairy

Sarah lost another tooth this past week. Let me rephrase. Contrary to her wishes, David pulled out another one of Sarah's teeth this week. He told her he was going to wipe it off. I believe that is exactly what he told her the last time right before he pulled her tooth out. Perhaps now she will know not to trust him when he says that. She had been hoping to lose it at school and receive one of the coveted tooth chests distributed by the school nurse for all who are lucky enough to lose their teeth as school so as to not actually lose their teeth at school. Her hopes dashed, she was a fairly good sport as she rushed off to place her tooth in a ziploc baggie and snuggle it under her pillow for the beloved tooth fairy. Fortunately, I was able to stay up later than her even though it appeared that she would never go to sleep, what with all her chatting and excitement over the blessed tooth. After sneaking some money from David's wallet since I had none, I snuck into her room, hoping against hope that she would stay asleep, carefully slipped the $2 under her pillow, and quickly escaped. I realized my error the next morning. I had left the tooth behind. What kind of lousy tooth fairy leaves the tooth behind? This one. And Sarah was very concerned about it. She mentioned it to everyone that crossed our path the entire day as well as to other people days later along with her concerns about what she was supposed to do with an old tooth anyway. She even went so far as to leave the tooth under the pillow a second night hoping that the tooth fairy would right the wrong that had been done to her and come and retrieve it. I am just a teensy bit suspicious that she wanted more money as well. Had she been as verbal about leaving the tooth under her pillow a second night as she was about the tooth fairy's incompetence in forgetting the tooth in the first place I would have been able to make amends, but she didn't breathe a word of the plan until the next morning when it was too late. First the Santa Claus debacle and now this. I'm positively killing her childhood.