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.

Happy Mother's Day!

First, a belated Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! It was a rainy rainy weekend, and we played around with the video camera a little bit on the iMac:



Yes, Sadie is in yellow sunglasses. She loves to accessorize. And can you see her pigtails?! Ali just put them in this weekend and it's the cutest thing I've seen in my entire life.

Mothers Day was pretty dreary out, so after a nice breakfast, we found an Indiana Jones marathon on cable and began to explain the story to Jake. He was pretty interested in what was going on, but had trouble saying "Indiana". Finally he heard Short Round call him "Dr. Jones" and that was much easier to get out. There were LOTS of questions, like: "Are Nazis bad?", "Why is Dr. Jones mad at that guy?" and "The monkey didn't like that date?"

All this rain really makes it tough to entertain the kids. At least Sadie is getting much better at keeping herself occupied, and at keeping up with Jake. She's been watching Jake play "ReadySetGo" for so long, and she finally got in the race with him this weekend! For those that don't know, ReadySetGo is the amateur sport where you stand with your back against the front door, say "ReadySetGo" and then sprint into the living room and crash into either the chair or the couch, depending on track conditions.