Thursday, October 26, 2006

Boo At the Zoo, Eli's First Haircut and Baby Update

Saturday was a beautiful, crisp fall day and we spent the morning at Boo! At the Zoo. There were many exciting things for Eli: the scarousel, the haunted train ride, lots of pumpkins, and trick-or-treating (really that was good for me, because Eli doesn't eat candy).

Eli loves the petting zoo. The goats and sheep are pretty friendly and Eli isn't too shy around them. Mostly he loves all of the little brown pebbles that are laying around!


Eli really wasn't into the mummy at all, but he's really into his mommy.


Today, Grandma and I took Eli to get his first haircut. I was really having mixed feelings about it as his hair so beautiful. So, I decided a trim would be ok, in fact, the cut is hardly noticeable, but now his bangs are out of his eyes. We took him to a place called Cookie Cutters that specializes in haircuts for kids. They have a big slide and tunnel in the waiting area, each station has a TV and DVD player and the chairs are some sort of vehicle. Eli chose the old-fashioned fire truck and was so excited about driving and Nemo that he hardly even noticed that a haircut was about to take place.

Here is the before shot.


During the cut he sat so still. He only moved his eyes to see what the hairdresser was doing.


All done. See, you can hardly tell that anything was done. Phew! Did I really pay $16.95 for that?


Baby Update: Well, she's not here yet, but my mom is which is a relief for me and I'm sure it will be a relief to Eli. Baby is due on Saturday and we're still waiting very patiently here at the Sperle house. Actually, Saturday is a bad day to have a baby here on campus as its a home football game and there will be 100,000 extra people between me and the hospital. Luckily, the hospital is only 2 miles away, so I can walk if I need to. I am now 5 cm dilated and 80% effaced, half-way there already! The doctor keeps telling me to HURRY to the hospital at the first sign of strong contractions. We'll keep you posted.

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