Connor's First Haircut

On our recent trip to Disney, Connor received his first official haircut. This definitely wins the "best buy" award for our entire trip. For a mere $14 Connor got a haircut with an excellent view of the Magic Kingdom's afternoon parade, a zillion Mickey stickers, his first set of Mickey ears with "My First Haircut" embroidered on the back, a certificate of this memorable day, and she even saved some of his hair without me asking...since I forgot! :)

I couldn't believe she said to put him in the seat alone! None of our other kids have ever even tried this for their first haircut! Little did I know she had the perfect plan

to keep him in the chair...

Connor's First Haircut

Here's Beverlene putting the zillion Mickey stickers all over Connor...

Chewing on stickers while getting a haircut...

Here's your very own Mickey ears, little guy...

All done and still interested in finishing off the leftover stickers...

Strawberry Picking

We made the annual trip to Sweatmore Ranch for strawberry picking over spring break. There were plenty of berries for our box and for Connor and Claire to consume. They much prefered taste testing to loading up the box!

Here are more pictures:

Strawberry picking

Geocaching

The kids and I decided to try out geocaching this week. I only know a little bit about it from looking it up online. I saw there was one cach hidden in a park that is on our biking route. So, we hopped on the bikes and headed for the park. After looking for it forever, we decided to give up. Amazingly we found it on the way out of the park! It was a super-small box hidden completely under a small stump. A day later we went on a different hunt in a near-by park. This cach was designed for kids. It was tons of fun until I miscounted the spots on a turtle's shell and we were stumped for two days. Finally we went back to the turtle and concluded the KIDS (yes the 4 and 7 year old) were better counters than the mom! Once we plugged in the coordinates correctly we found the box with no trouble. The kids and I had a lot of fun doing this! I think I need more lessons in the proper way of using the GPS though. The pilot around here tries to explain it to me, but I haven't been able to understand all the lingo just yet.

Below is a picture of what Connor thought of our first geocaching outing...apparently swinging in the baby swing, being held, and trying to steal the GPS out of our hands wore the little guy out!

11 months

Gardening

Jeff and the kids decided to try their hands at gardening this spring. Jeff built a raised bed for them to plant in. The kids were able to pick out most of the items in the garden. There are four cabbages...one in each corner. The man at the nursery gave them to us for free, so we figured we'd plant them. The kids assigned one cabbage to each of us and compare how each is growing compared to the other. I have no idea what we will do with the cabbages when they are ready. I guess we will have a ton of Carolina slaw for Jeff to consume!:)