Toothless Wonder

The day had been a long time coming. Ever since the day that Jaden found out that kids lose teeth, she began wiggling and wiggling her tiny bottom teeth. She swore up and down that they were loose! She convinced herself that she could feel them moving, even when we couldn't.

Finally, the day came. Jaden had her first official loose tooth! Every single day, she would tell me that it was getting looser.  Every single day, she wiggled and wiggled.

One evening, she went to dinner with Gramma J and Grampa Max. She bit down on her food and YOWZA! The tooth was coming out!  It was just hanging there! Eventually, it popped out... and bled... J screamed.  The entire restaurant knew that she was losing her first tooth.  The servers were very nice and brought napkins and water. They even gave the girls money to go play in the game room (in other words, they paid the screaming kid to leave!)

Jaden survived and was so excited to show us her toothless smile!

I gave her a tiny bag to put her tooth in so it could go under her pillow for the tooth fairy.

Jaden woke up the next morning to a little surprise in place of the tooth...

GOLD!!!

For the record, she has since lost another tooth... while with Gramma J.

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Cheer Camp

Gosh, now I'm having to catch up on my catch up!

This past summer, Jaden attended Cheer Camp for a week in June. On the very last day, they had a recital for the parents in the evening.

First, they had to do their stretches :-)

Then it was cheer time!!  They did a couple of cheers with all of the girls first.

Then, they broke off into age groups and did individual routines with their own group.  Jaden's group were called the HULA-gans.

They were all so cute to watch!

Nevermind the fact that it was over 100° outside and we were facing the sun! Taylor found a ride back to the car...

And that was cheer camp!  There are only a couple of weeks left in October... I hope I can still get caught up!

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Triceratops Rocks!

Well, I'm finally to June! Loving this catch up time :-)

After a full year of tap lessons, it was finally time for Jaden's recital!  She had practices every Tuesday and worked hard to perfect her routine.

Her wonderful instructor stood in front to assist them if they forgot their steps :-)

They did AWESOME!! I got a video at the dress rehearsal... Check out Jaden's moves!

After recital, we headed to DeBrand for a chocolate celebration!

Jaden received some pretty special bouquets from us and her grandparents.

We also got her a dancer necklace since she did such a wonderful job :-)

This year she has a new instructor and a new group to tap with. I can't wait to see their performance this coming June!!

Way to go, Jaden!!

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