I did it!! I can't believe I did it!! I don't even dare cut Walter's hair, or Trae's for that matter. I finally buzzed Grady's cute little head! He is so cute! I was a little concerned when the clippers lost their charge and my baby looked like this



But, I luckily found the charger and now, for the first time, I have a bald baby!!



Only, his head isn't as smooth as naturally bald babies. But he is still dang cute and soo soo soo happy!! However, if I wake up tomorrow missing 1 eyebrow, you'll know my husband didn't approve!

Bitter Sweet

Today was definitely bitter sweet! First of all, it was SWEET!! I fit into some of my smaller pre-prego pants!! yeah!! I was so excited. I felt good, and as the day went on they started feeling looser. woo hoo!! I love that feeling. However, something weird was happening. Every time I would squat down to help my kids with something, it sounded like the zipper was coming apart. I'd check, and everything was fine. So I went on with my day. It wasn't until I finally had a chance to use the restroom that it all became BITTER! I went to unbutton my pants and found this....



NO NO NO!!!! The zipper wasn't coming apart, my pants were! Not even at the seam! So, I guess we'll wait another 10 lbs before we try any other pants! With these pants gone, and the ones that wore out in the inner thigh the next day, I'm down to 1 pair of jeans, besides the 2 maternity pants I'm refusing to put away!! ugh!

ENOUGH ALREADY!!

So I've said, since I started having hairy babies, that I wonder what it would be like to have a bald baby?!? Well.....after Grady's bath this morning I decided to comb some of the cradle cap out. It just keeps getting worse and looks disgusting! Here is the "before" picture. I had started already, but he still had a substantial amount of hair.


When I was done, the table looked like this


And, after an olive oil treatment, my baby looks like this....


My dilemma now is this, do I finish the job and just shave my poor balding babies head? Or do we proceed with the "comb over"?

I mean, what's a mother to do when her sweet baby boy




has such a balding resemblance to him

There once was a boy named Trae! Well, sort of named Trae. OK, not at all named Trae, but that is what his mom calls him cause it's sounds so much hipper than Walter! :) Anyway....this little fireball has found that he has a crevice, a hiding place if you will, where he can "store" things. Almost like a piggy bank, not so much that he puts money in it, but that once it's in there you can't get it out very easily! He loves loves loves putting things in his ears!! Yesterday I kept finding him putting turtle food in his ear. He came and showed me once, but it was just resting on his ear, just outside the canal, nothing dangerous. I kept telling him to lay of his ears, but he kept find "treasures" to store there. I thought he had given up, until right before bedtime he started complaining about his ear. I asked him where the turtle food was and he pointed at his ear! OF COURSE!! So, we called the Dr and asked how urgent it was that we get this out of his ear. I know, I sound horrible. Most mothers would run their baby to the hospital to get it out. I figured since it wasn't obstructing any airways, it wasn't too urgent. I mean, American Idol was on and I was certain Brooke was going home (but then she didn't! Kind of disappointing!)! So, basically the Dr agreed with my waiting and we went in today to see if there was, in fact, turtle food in his ear. Turns out, Trae likes to put things in his ears, but he doesn't like it when other people put things in his ears, like when Dr Cramer put that plastic scoopy thing in to try to get the turtle food out. The nurse offered him a popsicle if he'd let her irrigate his ear, so he did. And out came the turtle food!



Trae with his reward!


The doc came in and said the left ear was now clear, but he saw some junk in the right ear, so we irrigated it....and....




As soon as the nurse got this rock of wax out, Trae walked right up to her and put his arms up. She said, "Oh he still likes me!" I knew what he was getting at.



He pointed at the door and off they went to get another popsicle! I'm just hoping he doesn't think we get popsicles by putting things in our ears!! Oh yeah, and of course I made sure to take my camera so I could get pictures. I'm sure the nurse was ready to turn me in to DCFS when as soon as the turtle food was out I said, "WAIT! Let me take a picture." So I took pictures while she cuddled my boy and got him a popsicle!

Last night I watched American Idol at Julie's house. I was watching it with her kids, they are hilarious!! I overheard Abe & Jax talking about the contestants. When Jason Castro came on she said, "I hate him!" Abe was a little distraught about what his sister was saying. He started to ask questions like, "how can you hate him? That's not a very nice word, Jax! You don't like his songs?" She clarified that she hates his hair. He wasn't completely ok with that, because she still said 'hate', but at least she didn't HATE Jason, just his hair. He said "why do you hate the singers." I thought it was so funny, because she knew everyones names. They were having a conversation about American Idol like we blog about. She told him she likes Carly, and David Archuleta, and Brooke White. I guess what I'm saying is these people went from nobody's to household names...among 6 & 9 year olds!! They were almost critiqing (?) the contestants. Their mother is definitely Julie!!

MOVE OVER SWEET CHEEKS!!

Dear Sydney Bristow,



You are so cool! However, I'm sorry to tell you this but you have been replaced. Pack your bags! Don't worry, you can take Vaughn with you, I've got Walter!! :)



To read about my success as an Agent, see the CIA TIMES

Grady's Blessing Day

In our church, when a new baby is born we take them to church and give them a name and a blessing. So, at my parents homecoming (they reported in church about their mission) we blessed Grady. We had lots of family there. It was great! Here are some of the pictures we have to remember this day.

I took a picture with the hat, but in reality we left the hat off! I just can't cover up his hair, however covering up his cradle cap would be nice!