Sadie's First Haircut

Sadie's hair was driving me crazy. It was always in her face, getting in her eyes. She screamed bloody murder when I would put pigtails in and pulled out every barrette I put in. I desperately wanted to cut her hair, but after struggling for weeks to get her bangs cut, I figured it wasn't going to happen without a fight.
We were visiting grandma and decided that Eli really needed to have his hair cut. We drove to the nearest Great Clips and plopped Eli down in the chair. Sadie was watching very closely while Eli was getting his hair cut. I asked Sadie, "Do you want to get your hair cut?" Sadie replied, "Yes." So that's just what we did. She sat so nice all by herself in her little booster chair, though having a lollipop didn't hurt any either. Here she is before:Getting the back trimmed up a bit:

Getting Sadie to put her head down:A little blowdry:
A perfect little bob:
By the way, her hair is still in her face, but she doesn't fuss as much when I comb it. She has some short layers that still need to grow out some. It's pretty cute.

On Vacation...

We're on vacation and I can't download my pictures so I'll just give you a few highlights so far and share the pictures with you later.

• Collecting rocks on the U.P.
• Taking the Vista Fleet Boat Cruise on Lake Superior
• Playing "Speeding" with Auntie Paula
• Playing monster trucks with grandma
• Eli camping out on the farm
• Air Hockey with the cousins especially Emily and Ash-ah-ly
• Sadie getting a haircut
• Lots of mosquito bites
• Swimming
• Lots of laughing

Eli's Photos and a Princess/Ballerina

Eli was playing with the camera today and took some pictures. I didn't realize how many he took until i was downloading them. They're sort of artsy. Doesn't it look like I'm deep in thought? I'm pretty sure I'm reading a recipe. Leaves. The real reason why he wanted the camera "to take pictures of leaves" and there were a lot of them.
Eli lost a leg in the mine-field that is our back yard.
We went to a birthday party today and the girls were supposed to dress like a princess. This was the best I could do:
A little more Sadie-like:

All Sadie

We went to a free kids concert to see Justin Roberts. Eli did interpretive dance the whole time and Sadie did this:I'm going to let her get it out of her system so she's not doing it when she's 18!

Sadie's been sitting on the potty. Mostly just sitting, occasionally peeing and once a poop!