Through some bizzare twist of fate, Gaby has lost both her first and second tooth in the same day. She was beside herself. The frist one fell out at school and the second one later that afternoon at home. They had both been loose and Gaby had worked out special techniques for eating toast and carrots that didn't involve her front teeth at all. She put both teeth under her pillow along with a letter asking if she could keep her tooth. Kristin and I had let Annabel keep her first one, so we weren't surprised to see that. But then there was an extra sentence requesting that the tooth fairy give her a toy instead of money.
Kristin was annoyed with Annabel who has only recently been let "under the tent" so to speak on the toothfairy and we had made her swear to keep it a secret from her sister. Annabel seemed somewhat upset by the deception, and we suspected that this was her attempt at retribution. Kristin scolded Annabel and told Gaby to remove the toy request from the note and wright a "normal note" to the toothfairy which Gaby did.
Kristin and I had set up a special tooth fairy pakcage with two envelopes, one for each tooth with a coin, a little letter, a small bracelet and a five dollary bill. I snuck the envelopes in just ender her pillow and we went to sleep.
We awoke in the morning to find Gaby in our bed holding three silver dollars with no evelopes and no letters anywhere. Kristin and I both looked at each other confused. We went into the bedroom and found the envelopes just behind her pillow, but unopened. We both looked at each other and then looked over at Annabel, who didn't seem at all knowing. Gaby opened the envelope, looked at the bracelet and exclaimed "she did bring me a toy!"
We later asked Annabel what had happened and she said that she thought Kristin and I had forgotten to bring anything for Gaby and so she had swapped placed three of her coins under the pillow. Kristin and I think that there is probably more to the story than we might know...
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