Locks of Love

About a year ago Sarah learned you could donate your hair to be made into wigs to help kids and decided that we were both going to grow our hair out to donate to Locks of Love. She knows a couple of people that have lost their hair due to chemotherapy treatments, and they are the ones that inspired her to donate. The first was Mike's Aunt Tracey who fought breast cancer last year, and the second is our teenage neighbor who is fighting leukemia.

Last Friday we were finally able to get it chopped. We drove to Tracey's salon in Bountiful. Here is a picture of Tracey cutting Sarah's hair.


And the finished product. She looks so cute with her little bob and she loves how easy it is to do.


Here's a picture of both of us. (Steven is an expert photographer)

I was impressed that Sarah never changed her mind as her hair grew longer. I'm glad we could do this and the short hair will be nice in the Mississippi heat and humidity.

The Circle of Life...or not

Going to Petsmart for cat supplies is a treat for my kids. They love to look at the fish and other animals for sale. Every time we go they ask for a fish, and every time they ask I say no. There are multiple reasons. The first is that I don't want more living creatures to take care of, and another is that I can envision my cats knocking over a fish bowl as a means of eating the fish.

When we went three days ago, Sarah tried a new tactic after asking to have some pet fish. She asked if we could buy fish to feed to our cats. I thought about it for a few seconds and then said, "sure". People feed their animals live food all the time. My kids have no problem with the circle of life and have watched one of our cats eat a mouse outside. (and have found the many "gifts" our cats bring close to home once or twice a week) So, we bought two goldfish for .13/each. The kids named them Starley (smaller w/black on tail) and Stewart (bigger w/white on tail).

When we got home we put one fish in each of their bowls and waited for the feast to begin.

The cats didn't seem interested, so when we went to bed that night the fish were still swimming in their respective dishes. When we checked on them in the morning they were still untouched. I had told the kids not to get attached, because they might get eaten while they're at school. I had to run to the store, so I picked up a cheap fish carrier and goldfish food just in case our little experiment didn't work. Don't Starley and Stewart looking happier together? ;) The kids can't get enough of watching them.

While Sarah was at school yesterday the boys and I stopped by Wal-Mart and picked up some more supplies. If we were going to own them for two weeks, they might as well enjoy life, right? What do you think? Do we have enough pink? ;)

While we're gone my friend Sheryl has agreed to allow her kids to "fish sit" our newest pets, and we'll plan on finding them a permanent home before we leave. There's a very small chance we'll keep them, but I doubt it since driving 1700 miles w/ three kids and two cats seems like plenty, but we'll see.

Little Monkeys

Last week Sarah and her friend Lillian found out they could climb up walls. I normally wouldn't want hand and foot prints all over the walls, but since I'm going to be cleaning all the walls anyways, I didn't mind.



After they climbed the wall they formed an exclusive "wall climbing" club in Sarah's room. Only those able to climb the wall were permitted entrance. Lillian's brother Malcolm climbed with a little assistance, so he was allowed in. Their club consisted of drawing pictures and listening to Sarah read books.

The girls also "surprised" me by hiding in a box. I of course had NO idea what was inside. :)