Her Sporty New Hair Do

Well, she DID get a haircut this week and it's really cute, but that's not what the post is about. Tomorrow morning we are having the kids' portraits made, and I've been gearing up for it for days - picking out the right clothes, finding new shoes, working on their feet (do your kids get awful summer feet? I blame it on crocs...), haircuts, etc. Anyway, just before bedtime tonight, all three kids started playing in the living room, and since I don't usually do bedtime, I was happy to let them stall (G was playing basketball with friends tonight). K was entertaining EB with his remote controlled race car, and she and A were crawling around chasing it. Then I hear a cry and "oh no!" I look over and the race car was dangling from A's hair!!! Just what I need the night before a photo session, but I guess it's a classic situation. Anyway, the hair was very tightly wound around the wheel, so there was no option but to cut it out. I think with the right combing it won't show, but it just about gave me a heart attack.

And this was on top of me - I kid you not - somehow managing to hole-punch my stomach using a 3-hole-punch this afternoon. That's a nasty boo-boo, and even Addie the intrepid patient was grossed out by it. The excellent part of the day was that K&A played with the water table, buckets, spray bottles and water cannons on the deck for 6 HOURS today. It was unreal. Like having them in a wet and wild playpen for the entire day.