PSF and Stages

If you read my blog regularly, you know that Melody's hair (or lack thereof) is an obsession of mine a topic I've briefly touched on.

When she was a baby her baldness didn't bother me. After all, tons of babies are bald. Who needs hair with eyes that bright and cheeks that sweet anyways?


At age 1, I started to wonder where the hair was. After all, even Jack had a little at 1!
"Don't worry," people assured me. "My baby was bald until one and then her hair came in like crazy!"

Um, yeah, that didn't happen for us. At 18 months, I forced Melody to wear a bow precariously clipped to six stands of hair after several comments of "do you know what you're having?"
And upon answering "boy" would hear, "Wow, three boys. How wonderful!"
Apparently a dress is not a dead giveaway.

As we hit the two year mark, those six long strands had grown a teeny bit more and multiplied into about 36 strands of which I would divide into two microscopic pigtails.
(I know. I have no idea how I got the rubberband wrapped around them either.)
By this time, people had stopped assuring me her hair would eventually come in and just looked on me with pity instead.

Finally at 2 1/2 we started seeing her hair not only get longer but a little thicker as well.
In the past six months all the reassuring promises of "soon she'll have such long thick hair" have finally started coming true!

Kind of.
Yes, I realize this is probably about as much hair as your 15 month old has, but believe me, for us, this is a full head of hair!

So you can imagine how thrilled I was when Melody came in the other day and said, "Mama, mah hair is in mah eyes!"




Hosted by Cecily and Amy

A best friend...

is a shoulder to cry on.

helps you out when you need it.

sticks with you through the good and bad.

laughs with you.

encourages you to make bold fashion statements.

Singing about Jesus

PSF and Snowball Fight!!

If you're a boy, the best thing about the snow is the snowball fight.

Seriously, what boy doesn't love an opportunity to throw something at another person and not get in trouble for it?

My husband started it.

But this guy was prepared to fight back.

He had some pretty good defensive moves too.

Until he became predictable, that is.

And when the snowball hit him right on the neck, and slid down his shirt, he yelled, "I got frozen!"

And then he went from the "duck" method to the "run" method!

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The Sickies

Normally I don't like to post about the state of my children's wellness.

I like to think I have more interesting stuff to post about than who coughed on whom.

However, it seems for the month of February, I actually haven't had anything interesting going on because the only thing that's been going on is the fact that they've been sick.

I credit Jack for starting us off strong with a case of appendicitis.


One less appendix later, and the Germ Fairy has sprinkled us with 5 colds, 3 sinus infections and an ear infections that will be resulting in tubes in the near future.

Following all that, we conclude with another ear infection



and pneumonia.



Freakin' fabulous.

Fortunately, despite the fact that I look like an prescription drug addict when leaving the pharmacy, we're all starting to feel better.

However, I'm pretty sure I'm going to skip February next year.

Or better yet, a month long hiatus to Hawaii.

Who's with me?

True Story Tuesday and Chinese syrup

Several months ago we decided to splurge for Chinese takeout. Usually we reserve Chinese for us and give the kids PB&Js but this time we decided to make it a family event.

Our children are not the most adventurous eaters but they. loved. it. We have added it to our list of places we will take our children to eat.

1. ChickfilA
2. Pizza
3. Chinese

In order to get them to try it, we had to fool them a bit.

Oh come on, you know you've done it too.

We told them that sweet & sour sauce was Chinese syrup and that the lo mein was Chinese pasta.

About halfway through the meal, once we realized they would willingly eat this again, we decided to teach them the real names so we wouldn't have to keep up this charade next time.

I said to Jack, "You know, in China they call Chinese syrup sweet & sour sauce."

"Oh," was his reply. "is that what they call it in Australia too?"

Love and Cookies

Around here, we're always excited to make cookies!

(even if we don't really look excited)

But do you know what's even better than making them?

Decorating them!

(And tasting the frosting...notice around the lips?)

Around here, we use a lot of sprinkles.

But do you know what's even better than decorating them??

Eating them, of course!

Even the undecorated ones. Especially when you don't know the difference!