Heartbreak successfully averted.

Jonathan lost his 4th tooth while he was at school. He's been wanting to have it fall out at school because you get to go to the office (very cool to him) and get a little tooth container on a necklace to hold your tooth for the rest of the day. So when he got home he ran up the stairs, so excited to show me his toothless smile and his little tooth case. But when he opened it, his lost tooth was...lost. Somehow he had dropped it during the day and he was so sad, near tears.

As I talked to him about what could have happened to it, I was discretely getting a dollar and putting it down in his room under his pillow. (Side note: I know I never got more than a few coins for a tooth when I was little, but inflation touches us all, and plus, it's a whole lot simpler for him to calculate 10% for tithing and 40% for savings if he starts with a dollar.) Then I wondered aloud if the tooth fairy had already somehow gotten his tooth out of his little tooth necklace while he was at school. Maybe she was passing by and decided to pick it up while she was there. Immediately his face brightened and he said "I'll go check," on his way down to his room. I waited upstairs to hear his response, and seconds later I heard the gasp and the exclamation that "she got it already!" He was dazzled and amazed that she could get it from right in front of him, without him even noticing.

She really is pretty sneaky, whoever she is.