Countdown to Thanksgiving

I helped Lola create a turkey with enough feathers to countdown to Thanksgiving. I'm trying to teach her about being thankful and that we are going to celebrate all the good things in our life with family and friends with some big feasts at the end of this month. I don't think she is ready for Pilgrims and Indians yet, she's much more interested in making up her own stories. It's a struggle to get her to let me read a book to her, it's always her turn. So I'm keeping it simple.

We created the turkey a couple of nights ago and forgot to take our feather off, so the next day we took two. When I asked her what she was thankful for, without hesitation she said, "Jaxson!" So I let her scribble on the feather and then I wrote Jaxson. For the second feather she said, "Dustin & Dana." We repeated the writing sequence and put our feathers in our glass canister. Yesterday, when we removed the feather her answer was Jaxson and Dana. We told her they were already in the jar that we needed to think of something else we were thankful for... we told her to think about what she prays each night - again, she brought up Jaxson and Dana. Finally, I said, "How about Jesus? Are you thankful that you can pray to Jesus?" She answered yes and started scribbling. I really wanted to say, "How about Mommy and Daddy? I mean, we take care of you everyday. Who do you think brought you into this world?" But I retained some self-control and decided not to manipulate her into being thankful for me - today at least. But if I don't show up on a feather before the end of the countdown is near, you can guarantee I'll be reminding her how much she owes me!