As many of you know, our dear friends, the Page's, experienced a tragedy in their family not long after this year's light war began. Their second son and daughter-in-law lost their young son at only 3 months of age. This little baby had already overcome some serious medical challenges and was doing well, so his passing came as a huge shock. Of course, being respectful of their devastation we sat our boys down and told them that our plans would have to be placed on hold until next year. For this year, the Pages win and then...lo and behold a few days later another sign appeared, this time on our roof line. The sign read "Tooth Fairy" in reference to Jed of course. Again, it was a fabulous job. Still not really feeling that some of our ideas were appropriate any longer (and because we couldn't get close to the house with the loads of people now staying there), we waited until after the funeral. I bought a small white Christmas tree and tied toothbrushes all over it. Owen then went crazy covering it with any ribbon he could while declaring, "This tree is so TACKY!" We are sure he doesn't know what that means, but he did know that he didn't want it to be "cute" or "beautiful". Then he and Jed went out (in dark clothes, of course) and secured it to the stone column at the head of their driveway. Twice they had to hide as Jodi left and then came back again. It was a great adventure for Owen. He felt triumphant that they didn't get caught. What are we teaching these kids!?!?!
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