Heber's Hair

When I was a nanny in New Jersey, I cared for an Italian family. They had a tradition that they didn't cut their baby's hair till after the 1st birthday-if you did, your child would surely go bald as an adult. So I adopted this tradition even though both my boys have been called girls because of their long curly locks.

Zak really didn't like it when I went the extra mile to see what Heber would look like as girl!

Heber has been referred to as a girl SEVERAL times since we moved here to Wisconsin. I guess his blue outfits and dinosaur jacket just isn't enough to fight off his long pretty eyelashes and sweet duck tail curls.

So cute that girl!

Without being totally committed to cutting Heber's hair, I put an elastic band tightly around one of his pretty curls and realized that either I was going to painfully rip it back out or I was going to cut his hair right then. Moses joyfully watched-totally happy that HE wasn't getting a hair cut. I gave both of them a lollipop-Moses snuck a second one and the whole process took less than 15min. Sadly for Moses though, I wasn't going to let him get away with eating lollipops without getting haircuts, so I trimmed his up a bit while he screamed and bawled!

Before the lollipop

After the lollipop! Dum-Dums are so amazing!

Heber totally looks like a different child! No one on the planet could mistake him for a girl now. He's got mischief in his eyes that you couldn't see before!

Christmas Parade!

From the moment we landed here, we have heard how people just absolutely love it here. I ask every one of them if they have a hard time with the cold and they all say something like they 'don't really notice it anymore'.  I am not one for the cold weather and Wisconsin is cold-but I'm starting to see why people really love it here.

 I have been doing a lot of looking and there is a TON of activities to do here! We went to the Indoor Farmer's Market and Zak was in heaven with the squeaky cheese and Mrs. Claus was there to help the kids decorate a free cookie and color a turkey.

 We also went to the Annual Christmas Parade to kick off the Holiday Season. That was a total blast. Sidewalks were PACKED with people. I really wanted a good seat so we left the stroller in some nook near some stores and went out into the road. I found a vacant spot in the gutter at the feet of a family and they totally were excited for us to sit there-they even offered their blanket for us to sit on! Moses and Heber were enraptured by the colorful, lit up, floats and the numerous marching bands playing music! My favorite float was the hot air balloon float that had 5 or more hot air balloon baskets with someone in each one blasting the fires that would normally be for filling up the balloons. Instead the heat was blasting out on all of us on the streets-it was totally toasty and warm as they went by! Never been to a Christmas Parade before, totally loved it!