First Haircut

Brooklyn did get her first haircut last Tuesday. Unfortunately, you will not find the cute pictures from a salon or myself cutting it with her cute smile, etc. Like many little girls do at least once- Brooklyn took the scissors to her own hair.

Silas and Brookie were cutting paper on their little craft table. I was in catching up on a couple DVR events. Brooklyn runs in to me and says "hair on da floor mama". I didn't think anything of it. I mean we have a dog and I hadn't swept the area in a couple weeks. So I just said- "it's okay". As she was running back to her table she put her hand up by her hair- then it clicked!! So I made my way over there to check out the situation. Sure enough there was some hair on the floor. Both her and Si just looked at me with a little innocent grin.

I had to get the story straight- Brookie took the scissors to her own hair and then took them to her brothers. Thankfully, you can't even tell with Silas. She did cut hers towards the back- which I think is better than the front, but now her cute little pigtails just aren't the same.

Needless to say- she has always known that we cut paper but now she knows that we ONLY cut paper. If you ask her she will tell you what we cut with scissors, "paper" and who can cut hair, "Mommy and Daddy".

Here are just a few pictures of the incident. Sorry, it is kind of hard to see her new do. Enjoy!

Update

I just thought I would do a quick update on my resolutions for 2009. Things are going really well. I am actually surprising myself a little bit.
I have only missed 3 days in reading.
My exercising is not as intense as I planned, but it is happening and that counts hugely in my book.
Sam and I have stuck to the twice a month date night thing so far.
I will be honest- I am not always disciplining in the nicest way to my kids, but I am trying and am aware of it when I don't.
We haven't really labeled a night as family night, but have spent a lot of time doing stuff together in the evenings.
Those were the ones that I thought I would really struggle with and it has been so awesome to see that when you have a little faith- anything is possible!

Me made it!!

Well Sam and I made it to the 5 year mark! Crazy to think that we have been married for 5 years! Even crazier- We have been together for 9 years! These last 5 years have been filled with ups and downs but we seem to be closer now than ever before. We have cherished these years and have never taken any day for granted. We know that many marriages don't even last this long and we are grateful that we have been blessed with such a great relationship with eachother. We look forward to many more years to love eachother!