Officially Summer Vacation

Hooray! Today at 10:00 summer vacation officially began for me! Rachel was on summer vacation as of 3:00 Monday but I still had to finish up all of the myriad of paperwork and cleaning necessary to close out a school year. I was just starting to get back into the swing of things so it was hard to make a u-turn to end it. Let's just say that it took me a lot longer to do things that other years didn't take me so long to do.

To start out the summer, we all got haircuts. This was Levi's first one.


Levi and mommy with the cape on ready to start the haircut



He was rather squirmy during the haircut so we had to help hold his hands and his head at times so that Kat could get it cut nice.


Here's my handsome young man with his new haircut that makes him look so grown-up.

After haircuts, my friend Sue babysat so that I could take Rachel to have a cyst removed from her back. She did really well! The doctor said that it was quite deep. I thought that I heard him say that he could see muscle it had gone so deep. I hope that she doesn't have any pain the next couple of days when everything wears off. The doctor told her to be careful because if she puts too much stress and pull on it the scar will be bigger. Right now it should be just a little one. We will go back in 2 weeks to get the stitches out. That means I will have to pick her up from camp to take her there and then take her back to camp when finished.


Last week Levi started drinking from a sippy cup. At first, he would laugh whenever you put the cup to his mouth. After a couple of times, he finally got the idea and stopped the giggling. The only problem then was that he would get mad when you would take it from him, which you had to do after awhile as he would begin to bang it on his tray. Then, just this week, he started making this funny face as he wa drinking from his cup. This picture doesn't really show you just how funny it is. It certainly makes us laugh!