November birthdays

November started out busy, parties to plan, social gatherings to host, keeping busy while dad was gone at training. Of course, it got a lot less busy on the afternoon of my birthday... I fell down the stairs and broke my big toe, that combined with my being 8 months pregnant and I was laid up for a couple weeks and Jackson was sent home early to help out. Glad he was, it probably saved me from preterm labor.
Coryn's birthday was extra special since dad was able to be there, and he got about a gajillion legos that he got to build himself...



last year he gave us a list for what he was going to have on his cakes for the next five years... and though I don't remember exactly what order he put everything in, I'm pretty sure he did, and requested a Harry Potter cake. so I got the crazy idea to build a lego thing to put on the cake (not sure I'm talented enough for drawing HP in icing).
It was a huge hit!











The next day Coryn got to go get a hair cut. Lucky boy :D

Hair Cut #2 for #2

One of the first things we did up here is cut off the hippie's hair... and he was super ready for it this time. I wanted to have her just trim it, but when she did it started looking like Beethoven or Einstein, all crazy like, so I went with a full chop. He started out excited.
It takes so long! Getting bored....















Almost done!











Aren't I cute?


















Brother had to get his hair styled too... he didn't need a cut, but the nice lady gave him a mohawk as well.

Shave and a Hair Cut

I'm smiling, can you tell? Apparently haircuts make smiles look like kiss lips and squinty eyes. We had to resort to lap haircut again (third haircut) at the Japanese barber house 'Good Boy', behind the barber is a fish tank with a giant fish in it that helped distract Coryn.
My first professional shampoo, took it like a man... ok, screamed the whole time just like shampoo at home.
My first hairdrying, still not happy, 'loud' I say 'loud!'

Can you tell how happy I am to have my sucker? I'm smiling again, but I'm so tired I forgot how to use my mouth. (you can tell by the eyes) All in all an improvement from previous haircuts! (check out the newest video at Lisa's myspace!)

So Much Between Now and Then

Well, its been almost two months since the last post and a lot has happened. For those of you who don't know we've moved to Okinawa (Japan) and we made it here without much difficulty. However, tales of Okinawa will wait until the next blog; this will just catch us up through December....
First of all, Coryn got his first hair cut, and it went as well as could be expected, a little crying, a little worried looks, but no outright screaming fits.
See, nice and clean.
This is the balloon he got afterward, it followed him around for a while and he sat on it a couple of times, well squatted anyway.

This is Coryn's first real snow experience, and perhaps his last for some time, but at least he got to build a snowman. Ok, I built the snowman, but he watched...