Saturday, January 10, 2009

Haircuts and Homecomings

I came back from a four-day trip out to San Antonio on Thursday and it was so nice to be back home. Here's my welcome committee:Ali started her Masters program at CSU (my alma mater) this week. It's called Leadership and Organizational Studies, which sounds like what she was doing when she was an at-home mom. But as it turns out, that's also what she gets paid to do at Sunrise, so way to transfer those skills!

To give her a few minutes to do some schoolwork, I took the kids out for haircuts this morning. It was Sadie's first haircut, and she did great! She sat very quiety, with that suspicious, furrowed eyebrow look that she must have picked up from studying Ali's baby pictures (or I suppose it could have something to do with genes). You can't see too well from this picture, but the rest of her hair is still long, she just got a little trim in addition to the bangs. Jake got his standard cut, and chatted up the barber the whole time I was helping with Sadie. "Mommy's at home doing work for her teacher. We don't get haircuts every day, just some days. This is Sadie's first haircut. She likes yogurt" and on and on.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Pappa Ooo Mow Mow



Here's what Ali and the kids were up to while I went grocery shopping yesterday. Sadie might need a little explanation. She's got the wax dracula teeth in her mouth from Halloween, and yes, she's wearing a tutu. Oh, and those are ruby slippers on her feet. And, that blue balloon sculpture she's carrying is the base to a balloon Eiffel Tower (thanks for the balloon architecture kit, Deni & Patrick!) Sadie loves to accessorize.

Good luck tomorrow, Mike/Poppy!