Do It Yourself Haircut

Being 4 has many adventures to explore, and this week the adventure included Zachary cutting a swath out of his hair in the front.  We couldn't be too upset about it as so many kids try this out, and we're thankful that he didn't yank his hair out by the roots like he did last year!!  That took forever to grow back!   When we asked him why he cut it, he said "Why not, grandma cuts my hair?"  Ha ha, of course Grandma used to be a hairdresser, so there is a little difference! :)

There have been some really funny 'adventures' that Kaleb has been on the last few weeks as well.  A few weeks ago, we bought some new Vitamin C jars (the white vitamins that are the size of quarters that taste like candy - yummy!  These were Amy's favorite as a little girl).  Karis had given Kaleb one or two to eat, when Kaleb disappeared into our room.  Karis after a few minutes went in to investigate and found Kaleb had crawled up onto our bathroom counter and had opened Amy's eye cream.  He was then using the eye cream as "chip dip" on his Vitamin Cs and happily eating both!  Luckily it was a tiny container, but he ate all of the eye cream before Karis managed to get in there!

The next adventure Kaleb went on was last weekend - the boys had gone to Grandma's house for the afternoon after our garage sale (which got rained out after only 2 hours, so was not very successful).  She brought them back in the evening as Amy was out in the garage sorting through the garage sale leftovers.  Kaleb ran inside while Grandma, Amy and Zachary remained out in the garage.  After a few minutes, Amy realized that it had been a while since Kaleb had showed his face, so she went inside to investigate.  She once again found him on top of her bathroom counter (clearly this is like mecca!) with a tube of open toothpaste in each hand, with the toothpaste smeared all over his face and into his hair!  Apparently the items on the bathroom counter equate to food sources for Kaleb! :)

After we'd ran to get all of the garage sale items into the garage - the boys were watching the rain, getting wet of course!

Enjoying some time with Grandma as we waited for the rain to stop

With the evidence all over his face, it wasn't hard to figure out what Kaleb had been doing!

A daily habit that has emerged when Karis goes to pick up the boys at Jennifer's is that Kaleb runs up to Karis, and then he grabs Karis by the leg and starts to run in circles around Karis' leg!  It won't be long before this game comes to an end as he'll soon be too tall to fit through the middle of  Karis' leg - or at least Karis may not be too keen on it continuing at that point! :)  What a welcome!

Phrase of the week:  One day this week, Zachary was in a bit of a 'mood' when Karis picked him up from Jennifer's. With this in mind, he grouchily exclaimed to everyone in the house "I'm NOT talking to anyone until my nap, and after my nap, I'm ONLY talking to Daddy!"  Karis did say that he relented once he got home and acquiesced to talking to Karis before his nap.  Kaleb's word is  "Ochay!" this week as he agrees to whatever you've asked him to do.

One day as we got ready to leave, Kaleb found a stray nylon knee-high and pulled it on and then put on his sandal