6Y1M13D 4Y4M トゥースフェアリー Tooth fairy

アラタ、乳歯の一本目が抜けた。

「ママ、歯が抜けたよ」と言いながら帰ってきた。歯はあるの？かばんの中だよ。痛くなかった？痛くなかったよ。泣いた？少し泣いたよ。血がでた？いっぱい出たよ・・・と私から矢継ぎ早の質問。

いつ抜けたの？という問いに対しては、「水を飲んでいて抜けた」から、「ぐらぐらしているから引っ張りたいっていう友達に抜かれた」に変わり、終いには「スナックタイムにビスケットを食べていてぬけた。」アラタ、初めての経験で混乱気味？真相は未だ闇の中。

トゥースフェアリーの話を聞いたらしく、「ママ、トゥースフェアリーってどんなの？どうしてアラタの歯が抜けたってわかるの？何色？どこから入ってくるの？」と今度はアラタの質問攻め。ママは日本人だからやったことがないからわからない、とりあえずやってみればという結論で落ち着く。

英国などでは、寝ている間にトゥースフェアリー（歯の妖精）が来て枕の下に置いた乳歯と引き換えにお金やお菓子を置いていくと子供達が信じている。アラタは抜けた歯を枕の下において寝た。

遅く帰ってきたJasonにその話しをすると、慌てて50セント硬貨を置きに行った。アラタはJasonの気配に気がつくと、目を覚まして歯が抜けたこと、歯を枕の下においてあることを話したらしい。いつもは一度寝ると朝まで爆睡のアラタだが、今日だけは、よっぽど気になっていたのかな。

赤ちゃんの時の一本目の歯はやはり前列右下。5ヶ月才ぐらいの時。ところで、乳歯って出てきた順番に抜けるの？

Atata's first milk tooth came off. He came home from school proudly saying, "A tooth has fallen out!" One of his teeth had been wobbly for a while. But I thought it will be a bit later and his shocking mother kept asking questions. Where is the tooth? It's in my bag. Did it hurt? Not really. Did you cry? A bit. Did you bleed? Yes, a lot.....

"When did it happen?" Interestingly, to this particular question, he couldn't really answer and we still haven't got a clue. At first he said it was while he was drinking water. 3 hours later, he changed his account by saying one of his friends just pulled it. Later he said it happened when he was munching a biscuit at the snack time in the morning.

He'd heard about the tooth fairy at school, and he then gave me lots of questions. How is the fairy like? How does she know my tooth fell out? How big is she? What's the colour? How does she get into our flat? I honestly don't know much as we don't have this tradition in Japan. I told him mummy doesn't know about it, but let's try and see. He decided to put the tooth under his pillow.

When Jason came home late, I told him what'd happened. He went to put a 50 cent coin under Arata's pillow. Surprisingly Arata woke up and told him about his fallen tooth! Arata is usually fast asleep at night but he must have been very anxious today.

The tooth fell out today is the first one which came out when he was 5 months old. Interesting.