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One night Copper lost her last baby tooth.  She wrote the tooth fairy a nice note and put it and the tooth under her pillow.  Then she copied the note exactly so they would both have one.  The tooth fairy remarkably remembered to put money under the pillow (immediately) but forgot the note and the tooth.  For two nights Copper wondered why our ding-bat fairy didn't write her back, so finally she left a note.  It sent Copper into tears.  She cried for like two hours because "it's hard to grow up."   Her tears made Micah cry too.  It was a long night.  During family prayer, I tried to pray she'd feel better, but all that came out was a snort followed by uncontrollable laughter by Tim and I.   Two days later Copper asked for a frame so she could keep the Tooth Fairy's note forever.  I told her she'd have to make her own frame out of sticks, and that was that. 

Camp: the calling that never ends.  We had a post-camp review night with awards and I got this one.  Fitting.  It was hilarious.  Notice the egg at the bottom...

Bathroom done!  Stained cabinets, painted light fixture and doorknob, new rub and shower curtain, freshly painted walls, and pictures on the walls of the girls in the tub as babies.  I was afraid to turn it over to the girls after because they're messy- but so far so good!


Micah hard at work on her night to make dinner...

I took my pets on a walk the other night... they meowed the whole way!

Tim's new neck doctor.  We call him Dr. Beetle the Witch Doctor...

Kota's orthodontist evaluation.  It will be her after-Christmas gift...

Copper got four braces on her top front teeth today!  She's very excited...

Me:  *during our semi-often talk on body safety*  Girls, who is in charge of your body?
Kota:  God!
Me:  .....No... it's not God. 
Kota:  It's not?
Me: No!  YOU!  YOU are in charge of your own bodies!  God gave you your body but He is not in charge of it- only you are!  Nobody else gets to be in control of it!  *I thought they all knew that by now*
Kota:  Oh.  

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