Summer cuts

  

One week in mid-August we had responsibilities to go feed a friend's cat.  The cat's name is Tiger and he sure missed his owners.  He would have sat there all afternoon had we not been on a schedule.   But we were squeezing duty in between picking JHP up from a day-camp and another appoint.

A back to school haircut!  And since it was kind of a special occasion and John was super sweaty from playing outside, Shannon decided a wash was in order.  He looks like he's enjoying himself!

John was feeling pretty special that he even got the Mohawk treatment in the bowl!

His hair was WAY overgrown!  I think it had been close to 3 months since his last "summer" cut.

And since I had my hair done too, we had to get a pic together.  You can't tell it from here but I got quite a bit cut off.  Our second summer cuts!

-EBP-

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Party!

A friend decided that her soon-to-be Kindergartner needed a reason to get excited about the upcoming adventure.  So she threw a kick-off party for all the soon-to-be Kindergartners.  It was a big hit!  Until the rain came, that is.

One of the funnest parts of the evening was drawing what your new teacher would be like and getting to finger paint the drawing.  John imagined his teacher to be very tall with short appendages.

He was very serious as he filled in his drawing.

And I learned just how neat he could be with finger paints.  He was quite methodical about not mixing the colors.  He was taught well at school!

There she is:  a tall blonde with red flowers.  Wonder what she thought of that when he presented her with that poster at school today?!?

And so what do you do with leftover paint on your hands?  Make your mark on the poster, of course!  I'm still not sure I'm use to Class of 2026 just yet.

-EBP-

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Lots and lots of Lego's

One major projects of the summer was the organization of John's Lego's.  We took them ALL apart, with the exception of 2 or 3 pieces.  This alone took a couple of days.  It wasn't until we had completed this did I realize just how many Lego's John really has.

Then we had to sort.  And sort.  And sort.  I had already decided how I thought we should sort and John willingly went along.  We might need to rethink that plan next time because sorting took a lot longer that way.  This is mid-sort.  I never really realized just how many mini-figures he has.  The square tub he's sitting next to and pile on the floor are all mini-figs.

We ended up with 5 of these shallow bins and a slightly larger one to hold bricks.  We also opted to segregate within a bin the tiny pieces so they could be easily found.  We sorted like this:

• bricks
• plates
• tiles / smooth edges
• specialty pieces
• mini-figures

In all I think we worked on it over about 4-5 days.  Once I got started I kept finding a few minutes here and there to keep working on it.  And then at some point, I just wanted it to be done.  I'm pretty sure it won't be before next summer that I take on that project again.

-EBP-

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