October has finally finished and I am so relieved! Way too many festivals, soccer games, parent meetings and fun, fun, fun. Poor kids. I felt like I was constantly leaving one party early to attend another party. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
Here are pictures of Valerie & Amira from soccer (before Edward Scissor Hands took over).
Amira has taken to a self taught cosmotology course. One morning she showed up at breakfast with freshly shorn bangs. I tried not to overreact. I simply said, "Honey, please don't cut your own hair. If you need a hair cut, let me know and I will take you out to get your hair cut."
Later that day Amira shows up at dinner with ALL HER HAIR missing from the front. Naturally, this is the point where she got a reaction out of me. I confiscated scissors and told her I wanted her to find the pile of hair and dispose of it. Absolutely no more home haircuts! Scissors are for cutting paper only and you must check them out from me when you want to use them.
Incidentally, that pile of hair showed up under the couch a couple of days later. Looked like a dead animal.
Well, the day after Halloween Amira has a little friend over. She and Eily are playing in the bounce house (still left over from the big party the night before). Then they disappear up the hall to play in her room for a while. Suddenly Rex is tattling, "Mommy!!! Amira cut her hair again!"
What? Are you kidding me??
Amira runs up the hall with even more of her hair missing. She shakes her head and tells me, "Nooooo! I didn't cut it! Eily cut it!" Then Eily comes up the hall right behind Amira as she continues, "I didn't cut my hair. I cut Eily's."
Needless to say, I had to re-confiscate scissors and had some explaining to do when Eily's dad came to pick her up.
Once Eily went home, it was time to take Valerie to get her ears pierced. I told her that when she was 8 years old she could get her ears pierced. She was so excited.
Here's her ear before the piercing:
And here's the ear after the first piercing and Valerie's classic "doesn't hurt a bit" face during the second:
And Dame Edna came to watch her sister get pierced:
In other news, Halloween was pretty tame. As usual, it got us to clean up our yard! We complained and complained (like we do every year) that this is a big pain and we are never doing it again. But, everyone actually had a great time and we decided we are definitely on for next year.
Here are some party pix below. I guess we were too busy partying and didn't take half the pictures we should have! Lots more people were there ... we just didn't get them!
Cleetus & Fatima (hosts of party):
Tiff, I love this so much! What a great story of those two knucklehead cosmetologists! Xoxox
ReplyDeleteIt was a great memory. Who knew I would be reliving it again years later? Good thing we didn't have Eily over again. I'd have more explaining to do!
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