Sibling Right of Passage

L*ily's first haircut came a bit earlier than expected for her and for us. While her sister actually did need a trim at only 6 months, L*ily was just getting to the point where her hair was getting in her eyes.

I think maybe we talked about it too much - maybe in combination with our preschooler's zeal for cutting - these two factors together along with inattentive parenting resulted in Z*oe giving Li*ly a hair cut (notice I did not say she cut her hair, no, she gave her the full price cut). This was followed by some scolding, crying, and scolding by Mom*my, visions of blood and ERs by Dad*dy, a good time out, lots of "yes, Mom*my, sorry Mom*my, sorry L*ily", and a good dose of parental guilt. After all that, we began to recover and heard from a few other very good parents that this has happened to other children before - cutting siblings hair, reciprocating siblings, cutting one's own hair, etc.

Then we lived with it for a week before I decided I needed to take her to the professionals in hopes of helping it "blend in" and maybe even "grow out better". You can see it does look better...
BEFORE PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT:

RECEIVING PROFESSIONAL HELP:
AFTER PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT: ("Are we done yet, M*om?)

Z*oe clearly still loves her sister,

and maybe I'm just getting used to it, but I think its kind of cute as long as I don't dwell on where the other 2 inches that took 15 months to grow went in a flash...

Polar Plunge!

Dav*e did something I never thought I would see him do - jumped into a lake on March 5 in Minn*esota - a balmy 25 degree day. This is the man who does not want to enter a lake unless it is 70 degrees, water temp that is! But he did it! The Polar Plunge for Special Olympics on a team with 16 or so guys - No Daddy No - Dads and Friends of Kids with Down Syndrome. And he raised a bit of money for the cause too. They dressed as Chippen*dales and went down together... for the most part. Here is the video with Dave on the far right and some fabulous before and after pictures. He says it was almost worse getting into the hot tub than getting into that freezing lake! They both sounded painful to me. Thanks to my mother for assisting with photos!