Style

Every once in a while the kids get stuck on some fashion or style interest that we either shut down immediately and completely or give in to after ridiculous amounts of begging and pestering.  About two months ago, Luke was interseted in the studded dog collars that you see on the Goth folks.  This one was shut down immediately and completely.  As was the gold patent leather high tops.  And also the mohawk request.  And then came the request for lines to be cut into his hair, circa 1990 hip hop style.  So Luke needed a real hair cut I was about to try the lines out when I decided to see if I could talk him into some other, less obnoxious style.  And thus the "hard part" interest was born.  It's basically making a side part more pronounced and combing over the top to the opposite side. Thank God he took the bait - this time, at least.  Now he's rockin' a cute and stylish cut:

And for her part, Adrienne is normally interested in less outlandish styles than Luke.   Now that I think about it, she has asked to dye her hair purple - again, that was shut down immediately and completely.  She is a girly girl and she likes her some sparkly jewels so I was willing to give into the earring proposition.  I described the process to her and she said she was brave enough to do it so we did it!  And yes, she chose the pair of earrings with the most bling!

Holidays 2016

Christmas morning

I could probably write an entire book about the holidays but ain't nobody got time for that.  Quick recap:

We hosted Thanksgiving this year - it was lots of work, lots of food, and lots of fun.  We only had one melt down and no, it wasn't by me.

We played "Pie Face," which was a hit - quite literally, you get hit in the face by a plastic hand with whipped cream on it.  Lots of laughs with this one.

Christmas somehow gets bigger and bigger every year.  These kids are spoiled.  Ok, Matt and I get spoiled, too.  Santa really likes us.

We had Christmas Eve in Corning and Gma and Gpa came down to have dinner with us.  We opened presents in the morning and then headed off to Canandaigua for a large family dinner.  We then opened presents again the next morning and the kids were starting to like the pattern so we had to nip that in the bud and return to our own home.  Again, lots of fun by all and all the presents left no time for meltdowns - yay!

Shout out to our whole family for all of their amazing and generous gifts!

Christmas in Canandaigua

Light up drum sticks

Too much Christmas Eve excitement

Christmas Eve group bath