I Thought The Day Would Never Come...

Today I lost Alex for about 30 minutes. No, not out in public. In our house. I had told him to go get ready for his nap and then 30 minutes later I realized that the house was awfully quiet but that I never went up to tuck him in. (Yes, I do understand that the previous statement indicates that my short term memory is whittling away but that's not really the point here).

Now, 30 minutes of quiet during Alex's wake time usually indicates trouble. But not this time. This time, I discovered him in the corner of Michael's room happily playing with God's greatest gift to mothers of little boys...Legos. For 30 minutes, he was alone. He was safe. He was happy. He was doing something relatively educational. And it was quiet. Blissfully, quiet.

While I don't have any pictures of that treasured moment, here are some shots of the little ones being "big" like their brother and sisters...doing school and practicing oral presentations.

I think I posted this one before...but look at that smile. It's worth 2 posts!

Every week, Alex has to do a presentation and don't you know Miss Lia is not going to be left out. We have no idea what she says but by golly she's gonna give her presentation too!

Alex, hard at work on his letters.

Doing school in PJ's. Is there any other way?

Alas, the silence of naptime has just been broken. Wonder what we'll get into next?

Haircut Day

One of the more challenging things about moving is replacing some of the things that we loved so much back in Virginia...like our hairdresser. (If any of you go to Styles Unlimited please tell Miss Laurie how much we miss her! )

So today was attempt #3 at finding a reasonable yet decent hairdresser for the kids. I can't say we succeeded in finding anything reasonably priced, but as you can see, the kids were well pampered during their time in the "chair."

We went to Peek-A-Doo's which is specifically for kids.

Alex got to sit in a car while watching "Cars" on DVD

as he got his hair cut.

He has SO much hair to cut AND he's so ticklish.

Yeah, I think he could get used to this place.

I've been trying to grow Lia's hair out so this was

her first haircut since coming home in March.

Any guesses as to what she might be thinking?

I'm going with "What the heck are you doing, lady?"

Now she's getting into it.

She opted for a boatride during her haircut.

The "pirate eye" is always a good sign that

things are going well.

She chose to watch "Dora" while getting her "do" done.

I can't complain too much because we had the whole salon to ourselves while we were there, so it was a very easy experience to take all 5 at once. But sadly, I think our days of $8 haircuts are now over.

Wonder if they make a "Haircutting for Dummies" book that I could purchase?

I'm Not A Fan of Beauty Pagents...

...but if I were, I think she'd be a contender...

Thanks for the birthday present Lindsey, Rachel, Brady, and Zach!

Long live Princess Lia :)