Big Moments in Little Lives: February 2012

February 29, 2012

This week has been insane already. So many friends, colleagues, organizations are being forced into making huge life-changing decisions this week. Four so far.

But Banjo sitting on one side of me and Kucing on the other is the most unexpected. This is a very, very weird week.

February 27, 2012

HAIR!

I'm not a big fan of musicals, but I love Hair. I've seen it live several times and I've seen the movie many times. Almost as many times as I have seen The Philadelphia Story (I love you, Kat!). I love Berger and I love the theme song. So, as I am researching how to groom Banjo, I'm starting to get pretty excited about what we can do to, I mean with, Banjo's hair.

So, enjoy the Hair lyrics and see Banjo's inspiration 'Do.

She asks me why

I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night
Hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low
Don't ask me why
Don't know
It's not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead
Darling

Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

Let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...
Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!

Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short
Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself
They'll be ga ga at the go go
When they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond
Brilliantined
Biblical hair

My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son
Why don't my mother love me?

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

Banjo goes to gymnastics

We had banjo's first vet appt this morning. Vet said that he expects banjo to reach hip high - his head, my hip, and weigh 65 pounds! He got his final parvovirus shot so we can take him hiking soon.

Didn't have time to go home, so Banjo came to gymnastics

Charlie's Gym

February 26, 2012

Banjo Update

Banjo went to sleep with Sam for his second night. He joins us at storytime and then stays at least until Sam is asleep. Tonight he woke up as Keith was heading to bed and climbed into my spot in the bed.

Whenever Keith leaves the house, even to go the garage for something, Banjo whines and stands by the door.

Keith constantly has this little smirk with Banjo. They are buds. It's hilarious.

Guess I have to go kick him out of bed.

Puppy Love

Charlie: I looouuuuve our new dog, Moooooom. I love Banjo. Good dog. Ack! He's eating the newspaper! Put it away, Daddy!

Introducing Banjo

Keith and Banjo are positively smitten. Banjo follows Keith around the house. Banjo slept next to our bed- no crying or waking up! (we'll be crate training him, but this is how he is used to sleeping for now). I can't wait to take him running.

Also, he is apparently used to being on a couch. :). If he is not with Keith, this is where he is. Training starts March 8.

Cute feet.

February 14, 2012

Fab Owls at WSD

From First Grade Gallery:

Sam's Bedtime Story

He gets a three article limit per night.

February 7, 2012

E.T. Wannabes

This is everything in Charlie's drawers and all his stuffed animals. Sam played a game like this when he was this age. He called it "Landfill."

Arches - The Road Usually Not Taken

There is a great arch that is hard to get to in Arches. The dirt road is maintained, but can be washed out very easily with some preciptation. If covered in snow, it would be easy to get off the road and get stuck. It was clear when we left and we wanted to take the back road out of Arches to see about some BLM camping on the outskirts of the park. Here we are getting ready for the last hike.

When we got higher up (you can see the van down there and the road, a a pit toilet) we could see the weather coming in fast. Then I climbed over a ridge and saw it coming in faster from the other side. It looked like a nice storm was going to converge right over my head. It was snow, which normally we would have just hiked in - I love hiking while it is snowing, but we didn't want to get stuck out there. So, we quickly left. The kids were seriously bummed. So were the parents. It sucks making those decisions.

It snowed the whole way out, but we found some cool needly places to camp in the future right out the back of Arches.