My mom gave Cady a pouch in the shape of a tooth last week. Today we were looking at the pouch and I told Cady that it's for putting you tooth in, when you loose your tooth.
She announced several times that she knew what it was for after that.
"This is for your tooth"
"This is for the tooth when you lose it"
"This is for putting your tooth in"
"This is for the tooth fairy, when you lose your tooth".....She announced the same thing again and again, to either of us if we would listen.

Then she looked a bit concerned.

Cady: "I don't want to lose my tooth"
Mom: "Cady, you won't lose your tooth till you're 6 or 7."
Cady: "Kayla is 7"
Mom: "Kayla is 3, but she is older than you, because she had her birthday first"
Cady: "I don't want to lose my tooth"
Dad: "We can put the pouch under your pillow and see what happens. It doesn't have to have a tooth in it"
Cady: "But I don't want to lose my tooth! I don't want to be 7"
Dad: "OK, let me fix it" (pushing down on her teeth) OK You won't lose your tooth now, ever"

Then, Cady left the room, with the pouch still on the counter in the kitchen. And with that, the announcements of the coming Tooth Fairy were silenced as abruptly as they were heralded in, just a few short minutes earlier.

She loves fairies, but I guess the Tooth Fairy will not be welcomed in our house any time soon.

We were able to travel to my brother and sister-in-law's once again. It's the one time of year that we all get together, at least try to. Last year, Scott had to work the day after Thanksgiving. So, this year was Cady's first Thanksgiving with the family.
It could have easily been any other day for her, as she is not quite sure what the hubbub is yet about Thanksgiving. But, the fact that she gets to visit family makes it more like any other day....WITH FAMILY!
The kids spent most of the afternoon playing ping pong this year.
And, like always, my brother outdid himself with the meal. Dinner consisted of burbon soaked smoked ham, barbecued filet minnon, and of course, a huge turkey. Cady was so excited to be visiting her cousins that she didn't take a nap. She was very good thru the day, but around 6 pm, she looked up at the clock and asked her daddy, "Is it 8 o'clock yet?" Poor girl wanted to go to bed. Then she asked me if "lunch" was ready. I fed her a bit early, and while she was sitting there, with bread in her hand, as if a wind up toy was on it's last round.....her head started to bob and her eyes shut. I grabbed the bred and put my hand on her forehead a second or two before she would have thunked it on the table. She was down for the count! We were able to wake her after dinner, to have a nibble or two, and then she caught a second wind.
By the time we were ready to go to the hotel for the night, she was playing with the girls in her cousin's bedroom, and when she saw me come in the room, she quickly jumped off the bed and insisted nicely that I leave them alone, as she shut the bedroom door. All I could do was imagine my daughter 10 years from now, as a teen.

Not many pictures.....but here are some of the ping pong tourney



And this isn't one from Thanksgiving, but it was a few days earlier




I just love her laughing face here.

...such a beautiful little girl

Cinderella never looked so pretty.