new friends

i saw these little wooden people on etsy the other day, and i figured i could do that, so i made jagger some new friends.

2 pirates and a boy that jagger says is papa.

he plays with them all the time. when i walked by earlier they were having little conversations...

pirate: "hey, what you doing here?"

boy: "i boy. i happy"
how cute :)

the fate wolfgang escaped

constantly trying to be ridden by two small boys.

boy, i bet he's glad :)

scenes from today

black cab sessions

how sweet would it be to catch one of these cabs?!

check out the site...the black cab sessions

so many more videos to watch. i could get lost for a few hours :)

shave & a haircut, two bits...

or maybe just some haircuts.

see...we be lazy, and cash and slade had yet to have their first haircuts.

and their hair... it was out of control.

so yesterday we took charge.

corey strapped the boys down in their highchairs with some yummy, yummy pancakes, put on some cartoons as distractions, and started chopping away.

up first was cash. he didn't know what was going on, but he just went with the flow.

first cut

such concentration on the barber's face

holy mess in the back

goodbye curls

who is this kid?

slade, on the other hand, was pretty convinced we were stealing his strength.

he looked rather distressed throughout the cut, and kept trying to swat corey away.

oh no...they found my weakness

that's enough already!

then we decided why not go three for three and cut jagger's hair as well.

no 'hawk this time, just a cut.

corey checking out his handy work

bleh. hair in the face.

i think the kids look great, even if i don't recognize them anymore :)

thanks to papa for being the barber. fantastic job!

when i asked cash if he liked his new cut and if we should keep letting papa be the barber, this was his reaction.

interpret it how you will :)

these brief and shiny moments...

when all the boys are playing quietly together.

it's rare and ends ever so quickly, but i live for these moments.

when it becomes unusually quiet and i look up to see this...

of course, 60 seconds later, they're fighting as usual.

but man, it was good while it lasted :)

new pants...

this is how i found jagger when i got him up after his nap...

he was so proud of himself for putting on a pair of pants all by himself.

then he stood up...

hmmm...something's not quite right about those pants :)

or maybe he's starting a new trend -- shirts as pants.

he was very insistent about wearing them around.

he had to hold them up 'cause they were a little big around the waist.

shortly after this picture, we decided maybe it was better to take them off,

'cause the dang pants just wouldn't stay up and he was starting to have

melt downs because of it.

slade found a vhs tape and wasn't quite sure what to do with it.

he thought he was supposed to look through it.

he was trying so hard :)

and here's one unfocused picture of cash, caught sitting on the coffee table,

which is not allowed. and he knew it :)