Kristin Loses a Tooth!

The weekend after Thanksgiving, we took another trip to the Van Omering dairy farm. They have a pumpkin patch there for Halloween, and then they switch to a Christmas tree lot after Thanksgiving. It was quite a change from when we went there for Halloween - and not just because there were pine trees everywhere! In October, there were tons of people. But Thanksgiving weekend, there were only 3 or 4 families. It felt like we really had the place to ourselves. While we were at the farm, Kristin pointed out that she had a loose tooth.

When I told her it would probably come out at some point that weekend, at first she was scared. But then we talked up the Tooth Fairy, and she calmed down. We had a great time playing on the farm. We discovered some new things we hadn't noticed the first time we were there - like the football field! Joey and Matt had a great time practicing their field goal kicks.

Joey was also excited because there was a ping pong table. He figured he'd be an expert since he plays so much Table Tennis on the Wii. He soon found out that video ping pong and the real life version are not the same! But we still had a good time. Kristin had a great time playing in the hay maze.

After playing at the farm, we then went out to dinner at a place called The Studio Diner. It's a cool old-fashioned diner on the lot of a local TV production company. While we were there, Kristin complained that her tooth hurt. It was clearly ready to come out. So, Matt grabbed the tooth with a napkin and out it came! Kristin was so excited!