1 question and 1 random picture

1st - Why is it that all the barbershops I see around town now BUY GOLD!!!  What is the connection???  I just don't get it.

2nd - Andy and I were out running errands a short bit ago and saw this sign.  He got a picture of it with his phone. It cracked us up.  I had no idea that Puppies were The Best of Fine European Food!

Gushing

I love Coach Crystal! Sarah has been taking swimming lessons once a week with her at Lifetime since Oct 1st.  She's had 6 lessons (missed 1 because she was sick) and is doing great.  I love going to watch her every week.  It just makes me so proud of her.  She has never been scared of the water but she has been nervous and not wanted to go under or jump in.  Crystal has her pushing off the wall by herself and rolling over to her back, jumping off the wall, and going all the way under to get rings and more.  It just warms my heart to see the huge leaps Sarah has made with Crystal's help.  It's all about the right teacher.  Crystal pushes Sarah past her comfort zone and it works.  YAY!  Next week Sarah has to try jumping in and making it back to the wall.  I think she can do it and that is amazing for her after only 8 weeks. 

Rites of Passage

It's been a day.

Let's start back several weeks though.  Sarah had (notice the HAD) a small white board in her room with a pen to draw on it.  She loved it and really enjoyed drawing pictures on it.  We removed it from her room after she drew a lovely LARGE happy face on her pink wall under the white board!!! UGH! 

So back to today.  I took a shower this morning with the kids hanging out in my room, mostly in full view (we have open master bathroom with shower stall).  I couldn't see that Will found the pen Sarah had used in our office down the hall.  He decided to "decorate" a couple places on the wall with his scribbles.

As if this was not enough, I set up Sarah with some scissors and shapes to cut out later this morning.  She wanted to make faces.  I had her cut out the shapes to do so.  I was sitting across the table from her looking at some toy catalogs.  She somehow managed to cut her hair.  Not just one little snip but MANY.  It's not horrible but it looks a bit odd.

It all just makes me think what kind of mom am I?!?!   Then I remember that coloring on walls and cutting your own hair are all rites of passage.  Just about every child does it.  I just wasn't expecting them in such a short period of time and so early.  Wish me luck that the rest of the day will go by fast and with peace and quiet!

(PS I will post pictures of all of the above soon.)

Fun Run and other tidbits

Yesterday was the Preschool Fun Run. Sarah had a great time. She did better than we expected considering she's more of a dancing girl than a running girl. She came in 3rd in her heat and maybe 8th overall in the 3 year old girls group. Her first heat was so funny. Sarah was more concerned about where her good friend Ellie was than about running. In the finals, she was busy looking around at the other girls. Amazing that she manages to be social while running a race.... only Sarah.

In other news, Sarah has new jammies.  She saw Will's outer space PJ's and really wanted some.  I am not one to deny her things that are out of her comfort zone, so the kids now have matching PJ's and are happy as can be!  In case you can't tell (haha), Sarah is the one on the right, not in pink or purple or a skirt or a dress or a nightgown!

Sarah, wanting to be just like Mommy, decided to try on my boots and my purse that I wore out Thursday evening.  I think it's a good look with the footie pajamas!  I'm not so sure about my 4 year old wearing thigh high boots though - a bit too Pretty Woman for me. ;)

For Gammy

I Win, You Lose

How the conversation went last night:
Daddy: Well, Obama won and now he's going to be President.
Sarah: Obama won? I picked him. You picked John McCain.
Mommy: Yes you did.
Sarah: I win, you lose.

She was very happy with herself.

Andy and I are just happy to finally have the election over. It feels like it's gone on forever and ever. The quiet of this morning without the phone ringing off the hook was very nice.

In other news, Halloween was a blast with all the grandparents. Will loved Trick or Treating, especially because people were holding out the basket for him to pick his own candy. By that point. he would just grab many items and forget actually saying Trick or Treat. He also loved ringing door bells. Sarah just wanted to trick or treat everyone, as she put it! We carved pumpkins the day before and Will REFUSED to put his hand in the pumpkin to feel the guts. Andy really tried to convince him but had no luck. My parents were out to celebrate with us and my dad found a new Garbanzo mask so scare the kids with.  He had a super old one for my brother and me while we were growing up.  Sarah and Will checked out the mask and decided it wasn't too scary.  It made them laugh!