Dental Correspondence
Madison lost her fifth baby tooth last weekend, it had been wiggling for a couple of days and she finally pulled it out herself. At some point she mentioned that someone in her class gets books and small toys from the Tooth Fairy - instead of money - and said she was interested in exploring a similar redefinition of this key relationship.
We encouraged her to write a short letter to formalize the request, maybe provide a little context on this most recent escapee. As soon as I saw the letter I knew I would have to post it. Briefly considered cleaning up the typos but couldn't bring myself to change her text. One of the standing objectives here, after all - in addition to trashing Microsoft ads - is preserving these kinds of small moments with a certain degree of authenticity.
I did take the additional step of clarifying a few key words that may be difficult to decipher, my contributions appear in brackets.
Here is the letter, exactly as it was hand-written on five pages of lined paper:
My tooth
Dear, tooth fairy
Yestr day I was
wigling my tooth
It got verey lose
I waned it to come
out but I still had
to go on the bus
so I cudnt pull it
out but wheen I
got home I wiggld
it a lot but it
still dint come out
evin at night it
woudnt come out
I was geting
frusradt aftr are
move (movie) ended I
went up stars and
gradd (grabbed) a tishuw and
jently trid to
pull it out but
it wodnt buj
a bit.
So this morning
I lookd in the
meara and it
was so lose
that I cudnt
stand not pulling
it out so I
did and it felt
so good the end.
And by the way I
have a qweshins
that I have bian (been)
waning to ask you.
1 - do you like to read?
2 - do you feel lonly some times?
3 - is there fareys all over the world?
4 - how do you get undr my pillow with out waking me up?
5 - do you have a casal (castle) of teeth?
Plese rithe back
can I have a
supr cool captr (chapter) book
abowt your land
and as a little surprise
can I have a little
book abowt fall
for my sistr
Love,
Madison
We encouraged her to write a short letter to formalize the request, maybe provide a little context on this most recent escapee. As soon as I saw the letter I knew I would have to post it. Briefly considered cleaning up the typos but couldn't bring myself to change her text. One of the standing objectives here, after all - in addition to trashing Microsoft ads - is preserving these kinds of small moments with a certain degree of authenticity.
I did take the additional step of clarifying a few key words that may be difficult to decipher, my contributions appear in brackets.
Here is the letter, exactly as it was hand-written on five pages of lined paper:
My tooth
Dear, tooth fairy
Yestr day I was
wigling my tooth
It got verey lose
I waned it to come
out but I still had
to go on the bus
so I cudnt pull it
out but wheen I
got home I wiggld
it a lot but it
still dint come out
evin at night it
woudnt come out
I was geting
frusradt aftr are
move (movie) ended I
went up stars and
gradd (grabbed) a tishuw and
jently trid to
pull it out but
it wodnt buj
a bit.
So this morning
I lookd in the
meara and it
was so lose
that I cudnt
stand not pulling
it out so I
did and it felt
so good the end.
And by the way I
have a qweshins
that I have bian (been)
waning to ask you.
1 - do you like to read?
2 - do you feel lonly some times?
3 - is there fareys all over the world?
4 - how do you get undr my pillow with out waking me up?
5 - do you have a casal (castle) of teeth?
Plese rithe back
can I have a
supr cool captr (chapter) book
abowt your land
and as a little surprise
can I have a little
book abowt fall
for my sistr
Love,
Madison