First Haircut

So E and my mother in law have been making comments (or gestures) for quite some time about getting his hair cut. I refused. I like it long. I think its cute. I finally caved in today. I figured I could compromise. I took him to Cartoon Cuts in the mall and paid $16 for them to spray his head with water and make about 5 cuts with the scissors. oh well. He did very well. Refused to wear the smock but sat pretty well with the basket of toys they gave him to play with. He didnt cry at all and i think actually liked not having his hair in his face. He shook his head around for quite some time afterwards.

We even got a lollipop afterwards! Our very first one, and we enjoyed it very much. He didnt have very much of it but what he did have he liked (I didnt need him on a sugar rush so I took it away after a bit).

Soccer and Shuttles

We started soccer this past Saturday. I was very excited. They break the kids up by age. only 6 months difference in each group (18-25 months, 24-30 months etc.....). Apparently EJ was the only kid under 2 1/2 in his time slot, so he was put with the older kids. Im hoping that in time he will want to be like the bigger kids and hopefully maybe if there is a God he will listen and follow some of the directions! I am pretty sure me and E got more excercise than anyone else on the field.... there were two goups of kids, our group and older kids at the other end. EJ wanted to be anywhere his group was not. He listened to no one and was only concerned with running as fast as he could away from us. (that, however resulted in a nap that lasted almost 4 hours! yay!) The first picture is of EJ, running AWAY from our group. He did sort of get the concept of soccer. He kicked the ball about half the time, the other half was spent picking it up with his hands.

Here he is in his soccer ball socks and Adidas Sambas ($38 for those shoes but when I saw them in his size I HAD to buy them)

Yesterday the shuttle took off from Kennedy SPace Center. Not close to us by any means but we were lucky enough to see it, it was super bright and these pictures do not do it justice. It was pretty amazing and looked like a giant fireball racing through the sky.

Playing with Pictures

I've spent the last hour playing with a free online program to play with pictures. Thanks Lindsay for the link. www.picnik.com Its not great, definately not exactly what I was trying to accomplish but not so bad.