We are so close

Yippee! He feel asleep on the other side today. I was finally able to cut the long side. Of course he woke up before I was finished, but it looks almost normal now. I can go out in public without worrying about my son's sideways mullet (thanks Nate, for that great description of what it looks like). I just have to even out the sides and shorten the crown of his head. I am pretty proud of how I did. Not bad at all. I don't think I am going to make a career out of this, but until he goes to school, it doesn't really matter if his hair is cut perfect.

What I got done today:

From the crown:

Straigt on. You can see that the left side is still longer than the other side, But I should be able to finish that off, along with the crown, tomorrow.

I did it!! (sort of)

So today's nap time didn't go quite as I had planned. Beckett threw a good hour long tantrum about not wanting to going to sleep, at least without me in the room. I don't know what all of this is about, but going to sleep is no longer the joy it used to be for him (maybe it has to do with not being home consistently for the last month). So, after listening to that for an hour, I decided to go in and try to calm him down. I held him and stroked his arms and hair. He immediately started to close his eyes. As I was doing this, I started thinking about his hair and how long it was. I thought about how my mom is always the bad guy and cuts his hair for me (I can't really do it because I am the one who has to hold him). Then I got to thinking that if I kept stroking his hair, I might be able to cut his hair without disturbing him and he would sleep right through it. Hair cuts have always been a nightmare for him. As soon as it was pretty obvious he was going to go to sleep, I put him back in his bed and kept stroking his hair until he was out. Then I went and got a comb and scissors. It went okay. I think I did okay with my first scissors hair cut. The only problem was that after I cut the one side, I tried to role him over to cut the other and he woke up. So, here are the results of the haircut:

This is a shot of the side that didn't get cut, just so you get an idea of what it looked like before I cut it.

This one is of the side that got cut.

This is of the back to show you how far I got before I rolled him over and he woke up.

Another one of the back.

And finally of the front.

I don't think I did a very bad job on what I did get done, considering this is the first time I have used a pair of scissors to cut some one's hair. It looks kind of like I cut some places close to the scalp, but those spots are actually just really blond spots or thin areas of his hair. I'm going to fix the other side tonight or tomorrow at nap time. I'll post pictures of how it all turns out. If all else fails, I am going to just buzz it all off and he will just have to look like a cancer patient again, like his last haircut.

Quiet

Today, I am grateful for quiet. Right now my kids are taking a nap. It is so quiet in the house. It is so peaceful, so calm. I love it. I should probably take a nap, but I wont, too much to do. That is one of the best things about going to the temple. The quiet. I am a person that doesn't like silence a lot. When I clean or do projects, I turn on a movie or an Office episode to have background noise. I like background noise I guess is what it really is. But right now, with no noise (especially not tantrums) it is really nice and I am really diggin' it. Maybe I will try to have more of these quiet times in the future. I am grateful for quiet.

Nap Time

Today I am grateful for nap time. I know I am one lucky Mom because I am able to get my children to take their naps at the same time. Usually I put Belle down first and Beckett goes down within the next hour and then I am free for about an hour and a half. But today, Belle went down second so I got like two and a half blissful hours to myself. What did I do with that precious time you ask? I actually got to workout. It felt great. It was wonderful to exercise without the children all of a sudden needing me right then. I tell you, kids know exactly when you don't want them to need you and then that is exactly when they need you. It happens every night when I make dinner. But not today! I got major me time and I loved every minute of it. I am grateful for nap time.