Week/Weekend

It was a week of haircuts around here...first, Sutton got a little trim in the back because his curls were admittedly getting a little unruly. As a Mommy, it's just so hard to give into the fact that they actually need that first cut! I didn't want him to lose all of his curls and his little wispy baby hair, but in the end it looks better, and he still has plenty of curls to work with. He still needs a trim in the front, but I'm going to have to wait until he's sleeping, because it's nearly impossible to get the scissors that close to his eyes while he's awake. Then Mitch shaved his hair short again, which wasn't anything really unusual or spectacular, but it definitely caught Sawyer's attention - he kept telling him "I like you haircut" about a dozen times over dinner the next night. On Thursday I managed to sneak away for the morning and went and got Jessi to cut my hair too. She gave me a long a-line cut, shorter in back and longer in front. I really like that it still looks somewhat long-ish when I look in the mirror, but it's MUCH faster to dry and straighten my hair now, which is always a good thing! Finally, the kitties both got shaved down and trimmed up by the groomer, and the boys had a great time peeking into the grooming van to watch the kitties take their turn. Sawyer didn't get a haircut yet, although he needs one, but now he's telling me that he only wants to get his cut if he can get it done in a van like the kitties did - silly kid!

Just a little trim in the back - the curls are still crazy though!

My new haircut - yay!

Poor cat looks ridiculous after his haircut - he loves it though!

Photo by Sawyer

On Friday I spent the day Halloween costume shopping with Holly. Our kids are all going to dress up as characters from their favorite TV show "Yo Gabba Gabba," but since the show is new, they haven't come out with any costumes yet...which means that us crafty mommas have to get rather creative in trying to figure out how to turn our kids into lovable furry monsters. I spent the rest of the evening working on Sutton's DJ Lance costume, and I'm actually pretty excited with how well it's coming out. I'd say that his is about 2/3 of the way finished, which is good, because Sawyer's costume is going to be 1,000 times harder to create! Now if the weather would just drop about 10 degrees, then I'd really be feeling like fall is just around the corner - I can't wait!

Sawyer is going to be Brobee (the green monster), Sutton is going to be DJ Lance Rock (the guy in orange) and their pal Hattie is going to be Toodee (the blue one)

On Saturday we took the boys to two different PetSmart locations because it was the weekend of their fall pet adoption faire. I promised Sawyer we would go see some puppies, but unfortunately both locations only had cat adoptions going on that day. Luckily for me there were plenty of people in the store with their dogs, so he had a good enough time checking out the grown up dogs...but he has still been asking me every day when are we going to go see some puppies. As much as Mitch and I have said that we're not ready for a dog right now, the discovery of yet another snake in our yard over the weekend is making me re-think that decision. Apparently dogs are great at keeping snakes away... which means I want a dog, NOW. Not that we're actually going to get one, because we truly don't have the time or money to bring another living thing into this house, but I sure would like something to scare the snakes away!

We followed up our PetSmart trip with a visit to Wesley Park in Rocklin, right near our old house (sorry, I forgot my camera at home!), which has two perfect-sized play structures and a HUGE grassy area for them to run around on. If the boys' birthdays didn't fall during such unpredictible weather times, it would probably be a great place to have a birthday party. We finished up our jeep ride adventure with a trip to Big Spoon for some frozen yogurt and brain freezes.

He's starting to love posing for the camera

Look who finally decided they like pasta!

This boy is SO ready to play tee ball

Erik, Jessi and Stella came up to our house on Sunday to watch football with us. This weekend we taught Sutton how to say "Touchdown!" while throwing up his hands, so now we've got two little munchkins running around seeing who can cheer the loudest. Sawyer is so funny - one minute he's yelling "Touchdown!" to the football players, and the next minute he's yelling at them to "Slam Dunk!" I guess he still doesn't have the lingo down completely! Though the boys are getting more interested in watching football with Mitch, a whole entire day of football is still a bit much, and Sawyer will inevitably start asking to watch the Cars movie instead. Good thing it's only one day a week...well, one whole day on Sunday and then Monday night. I guess that really IS a lot of football when you're only two and a half. Too bad I don't have a chance to win something cool like Lasik again this season. It definitely made the football season more interesting and fun last year!

Sutton swinging with Aunt Jess and cousin Stella