The Age of Innocence Gone...

On Saturday, my lil gal, being helpful, 'rearranged' her papa's home office. That was when she came upon 2 letters she wrote to the Tooth Fairy last year. This is the first one...

Anyway, what transpired between father and daughter after she found the letters... BTW, her tooth was also intact...

With surprise and traces of disappointment she told her papa... "That's the letter I wrote to the Tooth Fairy!" The papa was momentarily speechless but quickly mumbled something about the Tooth Fairy leaving the letters there. But this gal of mine was not fooled. She had made her own conclusion.

"There is no Tooth Fairy. Papa is the Tooth Fairy." With that another chapter of her kiddy years has come to a close.... one segment of her age of innocence coming to a close. 8(

And later in the evening, as we were on our way out for dinner... she said this to us... "I told my friends about the Tooth Fairy. And now it's not true!" It was said with a tinge of chagrin and 'shame'.... We used to place some money whenever she lost a teeth and it was something that she really looked forward to. We did that to Son too until he outgrew it. In those days, we had the RM1 'gold' coin and it was much more fun!

This is how the 2 letters came about. Other Half and I were supposed to conduct the exchange... tooth for money but fell asleep and did not manage to change her tooth for the usual RM2. We got up early the next morning... remembered, tried to exchange but she was faster. She had gotten up, all excited and headed straight to the chair where she had placed her 'fallen' tooth, expecting to find the usual RM2. She was really crestfallen that morning... and on that evening itself, wrote 2 letters... The second one was for good measure, just in case the Tooth Fairy could not understand English... so my 7-year-old dug out her newly learned skills from school and wrote this... in 3 languages! LOL!

It was so cute that we kept both her letters... and on Saturday she found them. All this while, she thought the Tooth Fairy had her letters... for the following morning, she would happily tell us that the Tooth Fairy had left RM2 for her.

Our little girl is growing up.... the lands of fairies and magic are slowly being replaced by the worries of life; school, exams, friends... the list will grow by the year as the magic and wonderment of childhood fades into the background. Kinda sad for us in a way....