Tales of the Tooth Fairy
Photo submitted by Karen Biehl of Marietta
Kaitlyn Waggoner of Marietta shows off a toothless grin. The 6-year-old lost her second front tooth on Christmas Eve, bringing a visit from Santa Claus and the tooth fairy in one night.
It's a right of passage that some kids take well, others, not so much. Julie Waggoner, 29, of Marietta said that she began preparing daughter Kaitlyn, 6, for the arrival of the Tooth Fairy when she was about 2 1/2 by reading a book. But when the first bottom baby tooth started to fall out, it wasn't exactly a great experience. "She was terrified. She wouldn't let me touch it even though it was hanging by a thread," Waggoner said. The going rate for a tooth in the Waggoner household is one dollar, which is a far cry from when mom Julie was a little girl. "I used to get a quarter," she said. But this past Christmas brought two very special visitors when Kaitlyn lost a second top front tooth on Christmas Eve. "Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy both came in one night," Waggoner said. As a mom of two teen boys, ages 15 and 18, Darla Van Horn of Williamstown, has fond memories of when the tooth fairy used to visit her kids.
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