Lucy lost her first tooth over the weekend. With it loose over the past couple of weeks, she’s been preparing for her first visit from a tooth fairy contemporary. We checked out a book about different losing-teeth traditions around the world, and she picked up one from Latin America where you put your tooth in a glass of water and a rat named El Ratón visits in the middle of the night, drinks the water, takes the tooth and leaves candy or money.
I’m pretty sure she thinks the rat’s name is Al Ratón, which makes him sound like a burly NYC sewer worker with plumber’s crack.
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To me it sounds like a fat rat straight from the montains of New Mexico.
Al Raton is a mob stoolie, a squealer.
Awesome to let her choose the tradition, though having an actual rat wander into your house and drink from a glass would be awful.
A squealer, for sure.
The depictions of El Raton in the picture book don't look so unseemly. He is well groomed with a handsome set of whiskers, and sporting a neat little sombrero and serape.
I think you should build on the tradition that a NYC cab driver comes to your home in the middle of the night.
An NYC cab driver would more likely be south Asian.
All of this is a bit like the Dutch Christmas tradition involving Saint Nicholas and 8-10 black men.
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/bs16/Christmas/6_to_8_black_men.txt
But of course.
Also - how different might Lucy's bedtime be, had I described El Raton as "murderous."
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