Birthday, the third time around

Today we went to the Seattle Children's Museum to celebrate the birthdays of all the kiddos in our parent group.  There are eight kids in total, but only four could make it today (because most people work Mondays, I suppose).  We had never been to this museum before.  Reed loved it.  Tons to do, tons to touch, and tons of other kids' hands from which to grab super cool toys. 

The Birthday Party part was fun too.  Who doesn't want to celebrate his birthday three times?  

I could really use some KOOL AID to wash this down!!!

This is the inside of a (fake) sperm whale's throat.

(see?  his haircut is pretty cute, right?)

I believe we are done with the birthday celebrations.  And the cupcakes.  And the resulting craziness.............   For now.

Haircut

Yep.  We broke down and did it.  I do love the scruff look, the long curls in the back.  The bad boy bed head in the morning.  But it just became too much to manage. With all the beans, bananas, egg yolk, and strawberries smashed in his hair three or four times per day.....it was just too hard. I definitely will miss the neck curls--for sure.  If only we could do the mullet--trim hard around the ears and crown and leave the backside long.  I guess I have too much pride to allow that to happen.

He did great.  We took him to our friend Tracie--she cuts our hair too.  In a regular place.  And she is awesome.

Before:  ...not that you have not seen his long locks of late....

Not the greatest representation of his backside curls....they (were) cute....

During:  Reed actually did better than I thought he would.  He liked the squirt bottle, the "ball", and the blueberries I was pushing....

Yes, there were a few moments of squirmy protest.

After:  I am sorely lacking in after-cut documentation. I will try to make up for it tomorrow!

Phew.  We can cross that one off our list.   Yahoo!

Random awesomeness

I'm still behind on some posts, but had to dump some iphone pics ASAP.

kisses!

 Karen DID make it to the Mother's day picnic at Gasworks Park.  She came straight from her race weekend.  That's why she's still wearing the dorky hat she insists is cool because it is made by some bike guy.  She also wants everybody to know she is still in her racing shorts.  Those are racing shorts, not fashion shorts.

This is what happens under Reed's chair at the table when Barley misses two of Reed's meals:

Completely disgusting.

Amy our nanny took these today:

That's right--another warm day, requiring the One Tooth Wonder to eat a Shirtless Lunch

"I'm READY!!!!!!"

Happy Mothers Day to me

Reed's younger, pro athlete, funner mom was at a race this weekend, so we were left to our own devices.  We didn't have much on the docket, which is nice.  I love hanging with my boy.  The weather was perfect, so that was super duper nice.  We spent a lot of time outside.  Saturday was mostly filled with Reed's Fan club, which consists of three adorable neighbor girls.  Reed's sun rises and sets on these gals.  When he catches a tiny glimpse of one of them out of the wee corner of his eye, he goes bananas.  Ba-nanas.  It is pretty cute.  They are fast becoming my BFF's too.

Barley has some super star status with them too.  Naturally they wanted to venture inside to see her.   I did not pose these shots.  They just all piled up there together.  And thankfully, my camera was close by.

And, well, as I said, we didn't have much going on, and the boy has to get three square meals per day in.....

This is a really dopey pic of Reed, but I could not resist.  Aren't his eyes pretty?

And on to this morning.....  It was really warm.  I let Reedy go out in just a onesie and socks.  Big mistake with the socks....not sure what I was thinking.....

A boy and his kitty...

See ya!

Those socks are now in the trash. And any day now we are going to start the binky wean.....

Auntie Lisa came over for some breaky, which went undocumented, and then we went to the farmer's market to let Reed practice his busk dancing.  Some sweet man played him a lullaby on his chainsaw.  I would have snapped a pic if I did not have 5 lbs of carrots, 2 pounds of dry pinto beans, and a 22 pound blue eyed marlin on my shoulder.  Next we headed to a nearby park with fun water features.

The three ladies in the back background were kind of enamored with Reed.  And he knew it.  And he was able to talk one of them out of a part of her sandwich.

......which made for a tired, famished boy....who insisted on inhaling some cheddar cheese mac and cheese.  (is that redundant?  is mac and cheese always cheddar?)

Yep.  Sometimes, depending on his mood, he wants to eat Dog Food Style. 

Headed to GasWorks park for a little picnic.  Hopefully his other mom will be able to join us!!!!