hair’s to today

I have these pictures on my phone of ways I’ve done LaLa’s hair. I thought I would post some occasionally.

I’m still having a hard time finding a place to take pictures in the morning and get enough light to see the details.

1. This is one we do quite often. It’s just a simple french braid on each side and then I combine them in the back of her head into one big braid. It’s fairly simple and quick. The bow is from All Things Ribbon.

2. This is another look she really likes. It looks more complicated than it actually is, but it’s kind of complicated to explain. Basically it’s a zigzag part and braids added into more braids and added into more braids. She says that people always ask about it. The bows are from All Things Ribbon.

 

3. This is the one that really started it all. It’s one of the first hairdo’s I did on Roo a long time ago. It’s a simple ponytail with “snakes” or twists or whatever you call them. Sometimes we do more small twists, but this day we just did 5 twists with her ponytail. The bows are from Gymboree from about 8 years ago.

Here’s a close-up of her twists. Her hair is perfect for looks like this.

I keep taking pictures of her hair and post a few at a time. If it’s a hair-do that I found on another blog I will post a link to their tutorial.

 

I linked to All Things Ribbons just because I love her bows.

we’ve got spirit…times two

It was the last school week before spring break so of course that means Spirit Week for the Babies and Roo. Our jr. high is boring and doesn’t ever do spirit week. Boo. And the Man-Child didn’t mention anything so I am assuming the high school didn’t have it either (or maybe he is afraid to tell me?!?).

Monday was Sports Day for LaLa and Ham…and since we aren’t really sporty people I was glad we had a few things handed-down to us that we could use.

For LaLa’s hair I did a zigzag part and braided braids into more braids. Kinda sporty, right?

For Roo it was Twin Day and she and a couple of friends planned their matching outfits.

Tuesday was supposed to be Backwards Day, but there was some miscommunication at the school and the kidlets thought it was Silly Sock Day.

LaLa totally embraced wearing silly socks.

And matched the rest of the clothes to her socks.

Since it was sock day I thought I would do a Sock Bun for her hair. I’m not sure if it’s my lack of skills or her crazy over-abundance of hair, but the sock bun was just huge and wasn’t so great looking. Good thing I’m pretty good at rope twist buns.

And Hammie’s crazy sock?

That was just a little out of his comfort zone and he stuck with regular socks. Which is kind of ironic since most of the time he wears mismatched socks anyways.

It was Disney Day for Roo.

Since there was a miscommunication on Tuesday they combined Backwards Day and Crazy Sock day on Wednesday…and Hammie choose to do both!

I think it helped to see other kids dressed up the day before.

The funny thing…I didn’t think about how they were dressed and ran a few errands with them after school…still wearing crazy socks and backwards clothes.

Roo’s school went PC and instead of calling it Nerd Day they called Goofy or MisMatched Day.

She didn’t mind how her clothes looked, but wasn’t a real fan of the hair and bows I wanted to use.

So she this is how she really felt, but was still a good sport.

Thursday was Western Day for the Babies and bandanas and cowboy hats did the trick.

I didn’t take a picture of LaLa’s hair because it was just two plain braids.

Roo’s school had Occupation Day. I told her I would have worn yoga or pajama pants and told everyone she was a stay-at-home Mom. Ha! She didn’t think that was funny, so she went as a Business Woman.

When she got home she said everyone thought she was Amelia Earhart.

And Friday, as usual, was Spirit Day for both schools. Easy peasy…

Since Friday was the last day of the quarter that meant a morning of Award Assemblies for me.

Hammie’s was first where he got Student of the Month.

And a Music Award.

I think he may have been more excited about the music award…

LaLa’s assembly was next and she earned Principal’s Honor Roll.

She was pretty upset on Monday when she didn’t get called for Principal’s Honor Roll, but was very happy when they did the party with the principal she found out that she had actually earned it.

After that I headed over to Roo’s school for her assembly and somehow got seated at the wrong table…with a bunch of students. Wow…just wow!

Roo got Perfect Attendance this quarter.

I’m always a bit surprised when my kids get that and feel like I’ve kind of failed as a Mom if they actually went to school every day!

She also earned Honor Roll this quarter.

Roo is in the gifted program at her school that consists of a 5th grade class and a 6th grade class that works together. In the 6th grade class there are 28 kids…and there are only 8 girls (and 2 of them are actually 5th graders).

Needless to say they are very good friends.

I didn’t want to completely leave the Boyz out of this post since they both had band concerts this last week.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…Percussionist should get to be at the front of the band in at least one concert each year!

And now everyone is home from school and it’s officially Spring Break!

Two weeks of no alarms and just hanging out together…

 

roo’s new ‘do

Roo has been patiently growing her hair out for the last year. I was a little surprised when she said she wanted to cut her hair. I let her think about it for a few days and she didn’t change her mind.

So Monday morning we headed over to our friendly neighborhood salon… (seriously, it’s our friend across the street that cuts their hair)

The before shot:

The after shot:

She has the most perfect hair. It’s soft, smooth and straight.

Super happy and super cute Roo.

insta-friday 6.21.2013

It’s Friday…which doesn’t really mean anything during summer break. Who keeps track of what day it is?!?

This is actually 2 weeks worth of Instagram photos.

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I’ve been having sleep issues again. I am having trouble going to sleep, but even worse than that I wake up at stupid times in the morning and can’t get back to sleep.

Last Sunday I was awake at 3am, so stupid.

That night I told my kiddos I was going to bed…it was 7:30pm.

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While Aunt Niece was here Roo had her check-up but couldn’t get her vaccinations.

The day after Aunt Niece left Roo got to make a special trip to the Doctor just for shots.

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Speaking of doctors…

He hurt his wrist drumming, yep the same wrist that he had surgery on last year.

I called the surgeon to make an appointment and they couldn’t see him until August unless we went to the ER and then they could see us sooner. Thankfully we have good insurance…and can sit in the ER for 4 hours on a Friday. Gah…

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It’s summertime in Arizona. We haven’t had any frogs yet this year, but we have some awesome lizards living on our front patio.

Judging by the size of these guys we must have some pretty tasty bugs that used to live there too.

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For Father’s Day I went searching for a picture of my Dad and his 5 kiddos. The most recent I could find:

From my wedding. 17 years ago. and I am sticking my tongue out at someone. Because as the baby of the family I’m supposed to be the brat.

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Two boys getting ready for scout camp takes time and lots of gear.

They were both gone the same week, but not at the same place.

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The Man-Child was going to be roughing it where he was going and wanted his head shaved.

I usually cut their hair in my bathroom, but I didn’t want to deal with the clean up.

So we headed out to the back porch…in my bare feet.

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He likes it…

I think.

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While Einstein is a scout camp we have a tradition of gluten gluttony that always includes cinnamon rolls.

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Somebody special had a birthday!

I sure love my sister.

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I am amazed at how quiet my house is with only 3 kidlets.

And how much extra food I would have after dinner each night.

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The Man-Child made a canoe they were going to use at scout camp. I love my son, but seriously?!? He is going out in a lake in a canoe he made himself?!?

I trusted him on a river in a canoe built by Coleman in 2007. Mainly because I know Uncle Kirk was there to save him if anything went wrong.

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Thankfully he made it home safe and sound…

Now I just have to wait until tomorrow for Einstein to get home.

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I love my Suburban. I think I have made it clear that it’s not natural how much I love her.

But I sure hate filling her tank…and this wasn’t even completely full.

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Did you see that Instagram now has a video feature? I’m not sure how I feel about it.

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