Boy Did THIS Bring Back Memories...

The other day, Chris walks into the office with a pair of scissors in his hand and, proud as punch, announces that he cut his hair.

Oh joy.

At least it can be somewhat covered up:

I did not scold or overreact, I'm proud to say. But he now understands that he is NOT to cut his own hair. Does he look sufficiently contrite?

Checking to make sure I'm not too mad:

Little stinker. Hee hee.

Oh yeah, this is why it brings back memories:

Don't my bangs look fabulous? But when I did it, I got into huge trouble. I couldn't use scissors (one of my favorite things to do) for a whole week! My mom was so unfair! LOL.

Flashback: Fall Festival

I was combing through the pics on our computer and thought it would be fun to post some of the older ones as well. This is the annual Fall Festival held at the boys' school. It's from 2006.

There are over a dozen game booths the kids can play for prizes (candy, bouncy balls, those little parachute men destined for a sad life of entanglement, etc). Here's John at the Hockey booth:

Here's the fishing booth. John is in line and Ben's in the background in a red and white striped shirt.

While the games are fun, by far the highlight of the festival is this:

Here's Ben in the jumping toy:

Ben and Chris (in the olive green shirt) making their way through the maze...

This is the ladder to the big slide. Even though Chris wasn't even 3 yet, he was determined to do this just like his brothers. He was by FAR the youngest munchkin on there.

Wheeeeeee!




Somehow I don't have a pic of Chris going down the slide. But the boys did this over and over and over again. It was pretty fun to watch them.