The Last Few Days

Oh, have we ever been busy!  There's been a lovely new haircut, planting, art class (with horse back riding!), a trip to Old Sturbridge Village for Girl Scout Day and lots and lots of cleaning and organizing and getting ready for the warmer weather (which was not photo worthy).  I had originally thought that each of these lovely events would garner their own blogpost, but I have been feeling like I am always a good few days behind lately and then things that I want to post don't get shared.  So, in an effort to "get caught up" and since we're inside seeking some relief from the unseasonable almost 90 degrees that it is outside right now I thought a "last few days" post was the way to go.  Here's to hoping that your last few days have been jam packed and full of wonderful moments and memories!  

A Memorable Birthday

Today is my birthday, but it will always be remembered as the day that Emma cut her own hair.  Yes, friends, that's right, Emma chose to celebrate my birthday by taking matters into her own hands today and chopping off about ten inches of hair from the left side of her head.  The funny thing is, last night I took a lovely picture of her smiling her great, big beautiful smile.  Little did I know it would be the last time we saw her with her long locks.

And a little over twelve hours later, a new look:

She was very proud of herself! 

"Mama, I cut my hair.  In my room.  Myself!" 

This was going to need some special tending to.  And it was one of the many times that I have wished that my parents did not live so far away.  After briefly toying with the idea of putting the girls in the car and heading to Connecticut to have my mom give Em an adorable pixie cut to go with her personality, I realized that it would be better to stay put and find someone local to do it.  The questions remained:  Could I find someone like my mom to do this?  And where would I find this person?  So, I did what any modern mama would do.  I turned to Facebook and within seconds had an answer.  According to our friend Steve, The Village Mane in Southborough was the place to go! I called them up, booked an appointment and we headed in.

We arrived and the girls were thrilled!  They had never been to a "beauty shop" (as they called it thanks to Max & Ruby) before and were so excited!  They checked out the magazines and chatted with the ladies as we waited our turn.  Finally, it was time.  We followed Debbie back to her area, she got all set up and then got right to work giving Em a beautiful new look.  The other stylists and customers were quite taken with the girls and chatted with them and reminisced as we waited for Em's haircut to be finished.  They all smiled that smile that welcomed me to the "club".  The smile that meant they had been through this too with their own littles back in the day.  Em did great! She loved that there was a little TV (tuned to The View, of course) and she loved that there was a mirror to look in while her hair was being cut.  She sat very still and would occasionly smile at her reflection.  As soon as Debbie had finished cutting her hair, Em smiled a great, big smile.  Clearly, she loved her new look! 

"Emma, you have cute hair!" -Grace

As you can see, Grace even got in on the action and had her bangs trimmed!

What a day it was!  Sunny, gorgeous (warm, finally!) and full of new adventures!  We are happy to report that we have found a fabulous new place to get haircuts and are looking forward to many more visits there.  Em has been proudly telling everyone every where we go how she cut her hair and went to the beauty shop afterward.  She is in love with this adorable new hair cut, which indeed fits her personality to a T!  When Dave arrived home this evening, they took me out to dinner at The Wayside Inn, where once again it was reported to everyone we met that she cut her hair.  It was a delightful day.  Full of sunshine, blue skies and time spent with my incredible family!  I am one lucky mama! 

Fun Stuff!

Since I knew that we had a super busy day planned for today, I decided to save our pictures from Friday for today.  Friday was a rather mellow day, mostly due to it being cold and rainy out.  Dave had the day off again (yay!), and we spent the better part of the day trying to figure out something fun to do.  While we were trying to figure out what to do, Grace noticed that our beans had gotten even bigger.

She then got a hair cut from Gramma,

while Emma checked out (yet again) the zipper on Gramma's luggage.

We then said "until we meet again" to Gramma, 

who headed home after a spending a fabulous week with us.

The girls and Daddy played for a bit.  

First with princesses,

and then with the PS3.

After which was nap/quiet time.  We spent much of naptime trying to come up with a fun and exciting plan for the evening, and thanks to Grace we finally did.  What we adults could not come up with in hours, she came up with in seconds!  When she came downstairs after she was done with quiet time, David and I asked her what she wanted to do today.  She replied, "Get ice cream."  Which sounded perfect, and a quick Google search produced a fabulous ice cream parlor in Newton; Cabot's.  I had been there once a couple of years ago, and loved it. It was the perfect place for our evening adventure.   We called our friends to see if they wanted to join us, and off we went.

Dinner was had, and then it was time for the moment we had all been waiting for:

Ice Cream!

My sundae.  

Molly helps Uncle Dave eat his huge sundae.  

Clearly, we all could have shared any one of the sundae's we adults chose.  

Especially this one!

It was the cherry on top of the sundae that was our Friday! 

We hope each of you had a wonderful weekend. 

As always, we'll see you tomorrow!