All I want for Christmas is My ONE Front Tooth!

Big M lost her first tooth last night (12/23). It had been pretty wiggly for the last few days, and she was finally brave enough to let her dad pull it out. A little scary for her at first, but then she realized the Tooth Fairy would be coming and she cheered up right away! We can't believe she's old enough to be losing her baby teeth...seems like she should still be our baby. She was excited this morning to wake up and find that the Tooth Fairy had left her two gold coins. As my friend Rhonda reminded me, Big M is such a lucky girl to receive a visit from the Tooth Fairy and Santa all in the same week!

Little M's Christmas Program

Little M's Christmas Program at her preschool was last Thursday. What a great looking class! And, they did an awesome job! I posted my two favorites of the evening. She was not afraid of the stage at all...it will be fun to look back at these videos someday. I couldn't help myself and laughed and laughed at how cute she and the class were during their portion of the program. Little M was pretty serious during the singing of "He is the King". Luckily, she repeated the adorable Chubby Little Snowman poem at home for us since it was hard to understand during the program with all of the class saying it at once. Such a fun evening and it made us all smile! :) Hope you enjoy too!

Responsibility

So proud of Big M!! She received the Responsibility award at her monthly Kindergarten Rise and Shine program earlier this week. Our GE Model school has high expectations for students behavior, character, and respect for others. Only one boy and one girl from each class are selected to receive the awards each month. Receiving the Responsibility award meant that Big M takes responsibility for her decisions and actions, and that she chooses "to do the right thing since it's the right thing to do". A couple of her good friends also received the same award this month---great kids! Awesome job Big M!!

Bowling on Bedlam

We took advantage of a cold, rainy morning to take M&M bowling. Coincidentally, it was also Bedlam game day for OSU and OU. We all sported our orange and black and luckily took one of the last two lanes available to play...we didn't realize there was a huge bowling tournament going on in BA that day! M&M both had a good time thanks to the bumpers. It was big help for Charley and I too! We had a fun day...started off with bowling and finished with a big win by OSU!!

Thanksgiving Day

It's so hard to believe we just had Thanksgiving and Christmas is just around the corner...we spent most of the day in Guthrie with Charley's family and then went on to OKC to see my family. Since we had a pretty nice day to be outside, the girls had a good time gathering up Aunt Mary and Uncle Ken's leaves into a big pile. Of course, they didn't stay in a nice, clean pile for long. The best part was jumping in!

M&M were also able to spend time with their cousins that they hadn't seen since last year.

Here's a photo of our family along with Charley's Mom and his brother Danny's family.