Clara's First Haircut

A few months ago, Meghan gave Clara a little trim, but she's never had a full-on haircut.  With her birthday, family pictures, and Thanksgiving coming up, we decided it was time for her first real haircut.  I took her to Great Clips, and Brandy trimmed her up.  We are going to grow out Clara's bangs, so we're in a little bit of a transition there, but the back and sides are now much better.

Homeless Elf

Joshua enjoys the concept of hats, both for himself and others.  Putting things on heads is humorous to him, although he doesn't always like it for an extended period of time.  Today something came in the mail, and it was shipped in one of those bubble-wrap lined paper envelopes.  Joshua took advantage of the opportunity and put it on his head.  It was cute, but he also ended up looking like an elf who had fallen on hard times but still wanted to don the appropriate headgear.

Seasonally Appropriate Art

Today we had our meeting with Elizabeth, our Parents-as-Teachers person. She came over to see how we were doing and she also brought an art project for Joshua. They put leaves they had picked up from the yard onto contact paper and then put that onto construction paper. Joshua had done something similar when he had gone to art class in September, but his interest in art has grown greatly in the past month so he enjoyed it a lot more this time. Clara has also really interested in the leaves, but maybe a little young to really understand the concept of sticking them.

A Big Helper

Recently Joshua has become a really big helper. Mostly this is so sweet because he wants to help with things and so he wipes Clara's nose or fixes her hair or wants to feed Hannah. Here he is helping Jason do that. It can give me panic attacks at times as he also tries to pick Hannah up out of her pack 'n play and he tends to tip Clara out of her car when he pushes her around so sometimes he struggles a little with execution since he is just a little guy, but I love seeing him want to help. Terrence, on the other hand, needs no help repeatedly tasting his delicious foot.

Swinging Wildcat Fans

Today was the last nice day before the cold front comes in tomorrow, so Jason took advantage of that by taking the kids outside while I made lunch. Here they are in their K-State purple since later in the day we watched K-State's perfect season continue as they defeated TCU.

Unseasonably Warm

We do not have particularly harsh winters here, which is one thing I really like about Kansas, but we also have four very distinct seasons. But today late fall took a break and it was 70 degrees. It was so pleasant and nice so we definitely had to go outside. Both kids love going out and we spent sometime in the backyard playing with leaves and dirt and other fun things like that.

Water Transfer

Today the project I did with Joshua was transferring water between bowls with a sponge. I wasn't sure if he would get it or be able to squeeze the sponge, but he did and he liked it a fair amount, though it pretty quickly devolved into splashing around, which he liked even more. I am okay with that and am always glad to see him having fun.