five

five things about today

1 - i cut shoghi's hair.
in the end it came out ok, but wow, it was really challenging and required one lollipop and two popsicles per kid.

before

after

2 - bedtime usually takes 30 minutes. tonight, it took two hours,
probably because of all that sugar.

3 - we finally, blessedly, had a day without rain:

shoghi and ruby, hangin' like big kids

4 - we took our inaugural walk in the new wagon our friend passed on to us:


5 - i really wish i had a pint of ice cream to devour right now.

the good with the bad

it's been a really rough 24 hours. a hard bedtime last night, and then a 2:30-4am waking for shoghi that was colored with screaming tantrums, if you can even call it a tantrum. he has these horrible wakings when he's teething, but this was by far the worst. kicking, scratching, back arching, screaming and crying, for 90 minutes in the middle of the night before he finally fell asleep in my arms. i'm so grateful max didn't wake up.

today both of them skipped their nap for the first time, so the afternoon was terrible, and shoghi's bedtime was again emotional and hard. poor boy. damned molars.



but there were a few fun things today, among which was my very first mama haircut for max - in fact the first haircut i've ever done without clippers. it was just a spontaneous thing after seeing his bangs bother him. i put him in his high chair, put on "click, clack, moo" and set to work. it's noticeably amateur, but that kind of makes me love it even more. i think i'll do shoghi's tomorrow!