Tooth Fairy Pillow
July 20, 2006 by Kerri Aldrich
Filed under General Play Library Goodies
My daughter’s first tooth fell out today. Boy, wouldn’t it have been cute to have one of these little pillows for her to put it in for the tooth fairy?
Well, too bad for her, because we didn’t. Her tooth is wrapped in a tissue, sealed in a plastic baggy. I know, I know, there goes my mother of the year award nomination, again. But maybe that’s what she gets for wiggling it at me for the last two weeks when she knows it freaks me out! Or for just having an absent-minded Mommy.
It is strange, though, because I do believe that this first tooth to vacate her mouth was also its first resident. Five years ago this month, that little tooth peeked its way through her pink, sore gums, and reminded us that our newborn was gone and was being replaced by an active, mobile baby. And now that tooth, leaving a vacant space in her beautiful smile, reminds us that our baby has been long gone, and our little girl continues to grow up.
But I’m still not touching the tooth. It really does gross me out.
Aww. I was feeling so nostalgic until the end.
We have a little wooden tooth-shaped holder for baby teeth that we got in Japan. I hope I can find it when the time comes!
Oh, and make sure you label that baggie really well because my sister-in-law also wrapped her daughter’s first lost baby tooth in a tissue then later threw it out by accident. She cried.
I have no intention of keeping these things. I’m sure I’ll keep the first one around for a few months, and then throw it out. I had a friend in college who had all her baby teeth in a little box. Gave me the complete heebie jeebies!!!!
Oh yeah: That thing’s gone! I don’t know where the Tooth Fairy takes it, and I don’t want to know.
We knew a lady from church, elderly, who collected things. She had an extensive miniature spoon collection for instance. She also collected the teeth of the church kids. She had at least one big shirt box full of teeth, labelled. Sometimes the Tooth Fairy would leave our tooth behind so we could give this lady our teeth.
In our family, and I do this to my kids too, the tooth always went in a small juice glass filled with water. In the morning, you’d have to fish out your coins from the tooth water. An Adventure! As a parent, it sure beats trying to find a tooth under a pillow, replace it with money, and not wake the kid up.
Eww…Eww…Eww…a shirt box full of teeth? Now I’m really gonna have nightmares.
And I have no idea how hard the tooth was to find. I made Bald Man do it. 
Actually, though, we just had her put it under her pillow in the baggy. But he didn’t wake her!
Yep, the teeth were all adhered somehow to the box and labelled. Like a bug collection would be. Definitely creepy.
I don’t know if I will keep my daugher’s teeth when it comes time. I love the pillow, though! Thanks for sharing this with the Carnival of Family Life!
Absolutely. Thanks so much for hosting and including us.
Ack!! LOL we never saved our teeth, that’s a little creepy ;).
I think I saved my own teeth. When I visit my parents next month, I’ll see if I can find them and share the pic here. HaHaHahAHAHa
MamaDuck-Whew! I’m not alone in my being creeped out by the bitty bone collection.
Hsien-And here I thought you loved me and cared about my mental health.
I love tooth fairy pillows. I recently started making them and hope to sell a few eventually. When my oldest lost her first tooth, she was at her dad’s house. We’ve only had the tooth fairy visit our house once. And of course, I didn’t have the pillow done then. LOL
Mommy the Maid: Thanks for commenting here! I bet the pillows are adorable. I bet the kids would love them. I can even appreciate them, if I don’t have to touch the teeth!