Thursday, September 07, 2006

A day of firsts....

Yesterday, the boy went to his first day of kindergarten. He's in the same montessori school we had in him for pre-school last year, so he was pretty comfortable with it.

It was also yesterday that he lost a baby tooth for the first time. This afforded me a first: I got to play "tooth fairy" for the first time. Right before I went to bed last night, I swapped out his tooth for a dollar's worth of quarters.

When I was a wee lad, I got a quarter for a tooth. Inflation is a bitch, but I figured the boy ought to get enough for his first tooth to be able to buy one of his beloved Hot Wheels cars.

6 comments:

Wiwille said...

I only got a dime. My folks would be afraid I'd spend it on candy.

Mabye I should seek therapy for that, or better yet sue. I'm poor.

rawbean said...

soooo cute! Awhh...tooth fairy must be fun. Was he delited?

Anonymous said...

Gads.. um.. Cost of living shoulda been $5.34 :-/

Oh wait, your not that old, hold on, yes you are.. D’oh!
For me it would be like $8.75, no wait.., (adding up the loot I used to be able to buy..) $12.25 *suddenly feel old, and really depressed* My million dollar retirement isn’t going to be enough.. : (

Too bad the largest “non-gold” coins are only a dollar. Not ready to be dropping a $600 gold coin under the pillow quite yet. Course they got the $20 gold coins, but those are so frigge’n small it would get lost before the kid could find it.

However, if you drive your new, nice little bike over, I’ll pawn off one of my “pirate treasure” coins for his next tooth (got them gold colored dollar coins.)
That and we can burn some meat on the grill outside.
What ya say? Wanna come over now? (gotta bribe the guy just to feed him and his family.)


-Psyber

Mattbear said...

Wiwille: Well, there's no doubt you should seek therapy. It won't do you any good, but it'd be covered by insurance so go for it.
Jen always says her motto as a parent is, "Therapy, not jail."

Rawbean: He was thrilled. Jen put the tooth in a little box, and I put the quarters in the box, so when he first saw it I think he was afraid the Tooth Fairy hadn't come. Once he saw there was money inside, he brightened right up. Especially when I told him it would be enough for a Hot Wheels car.

Psyber: You have to talk to the missus. She decides what we're doing and where we're going. As for riding the bike, I won't be making that kind of haul on it for a little while yet.

Anonymous said...

Gads...

Okay,
I'll have my missus talk with your missus,
or better yet have your missus talk with my missus and then we'll do lunch.

provided the missus dont take off for lunch on their own and leave us both holding the kids, in which case we won't be doing lunch because they will eat everything and there won't be anything left for us.

At that point its chips and halo2 right?


-Psyber

rawbean said...

delighted! (don't know what happened back there)

Glad to hear he'll be getting a hotwheels - and that they are still relatively affordable.