Zach's First Day of School - Third Grade!

Today was a bittersweet day - it was Zach's first day of school in 3rd grade.  He is really getting so big and I can hardly believe he's already in 3rd grade!  Last night was back to school night and we went over and met his teacher Miss Berry.  She seems really nice and I just know he's going to have a great year.

This morning he was all smiles and so excited to go!

This is the outfit he chose to wear, doesn't he look handsome?!?

He's been most excited to wear his brand new shoes, he wanted me to get a picture of them to put on the blog so everyone could see how cool they were!

Here he is with his backpack all ready to head out the door.

Before I knew it, it was time for him to go - he turned around for one more picture and then  ...

... off he went with the neighbor kids for his first day of school.

I didn't think I would, but I teared up just a bit.  It has been kind of a crazy summer and he's been more bored than anything else.  We've both been looking forward to school and having him something more structured to do and learn.  But, I have to admit, my mind flashed back to this:

How on earth did my little baby get so big so fast?

Seems like just yesterday we were bringing him home from the hospital and now he's a big 3rd grader.  Time goes by so fast and sometimes it feels like you blink and they grow up on you.  *Sigh*  Such is life I suppose.  So, now we are waiting for his return in the next little bit and to hear all about his fabulous first day of school.  I just know it will have been so much fun!

(Another first day of school post will be coming next week when kingergarten starts - but I'm trying not to think about that right now!)

School Haircuts!

With school just right around the corner, we decided it was time for some haircuts. So Saturday afternoon, we pulled everything out and proceeded to cut some hair!

Zach was up first. I've been cutting his hair for some time now and although he complained the whole time (which is normal), we got it done fairly quickly and it turned out great.

Love that smile!



I love the back, especially when the bottom is so short! I also love his major cowlick - it's so prominent and fun to deal with when trying to comb the hair down!


Next up was Hailey. I usually have a friend down the street cut her hair, but I had tried to trim it myself last time (with somewhat successful results) and because we waited so long to get it cut this time around, I decided to try it again - after all, how hard would it be to just cut it short and straight?

Well, as I learned nearly 30 minutes later - QUITE DIFFICULT and that I can really make it look HORRIBLE in just a short amount of time! So after feeling frustrated, having her wash it, letting it dry, and all the while praying that it would look better any minute, I realized I had really made a mess of it. So I desperately dialed my friend down the street, tried not to cry as I admitted what I had done, and begged some time from her to fix it. Graciously, she told me to bring her right down. My wonderful friend put aside everything she was doing on her Saturday night to fix my mistake and after another 30 minutes, she had worked a miracle! She made it look wonderful and we finally felt like we had a haircut that we could be proud of! Here it is (I didn't even take pictures of my attempt because that is NOT something I'm proud of and want to remember!):


She wanted it really short, so by the time Tiffani fixed my mess, it was really short - but she loves it!


We decided to try a headband for church yesterday - it looked cute, but we found out that it's hard for a little girl to keep it in place and looking good, so we probably won't be using that again! But she did look cute.


This isn't the best picture of the back, she had slept on it weird overnight, but it does show how short it ended up.


Whew - what a day! One thing I learned - there are just some things that I can't do - one of those is cutting my daughter's hair! I don't think I'll be attempting that again any time soon!

So, with much drama and many thanks to a wonderful friend, we finally ended up with hair ready for school!