Fancy woven ribbon hair

We had a hard week again, My cousin who is special needs died suddenly last Friday, He was such a sweet loving person. Eric will truly be missed by all who knew him. He always felt so strongly about doing things that were right and the only times that I saw him upset or angry was when his freedoms were being challenged.
For such a special guy I had to do special hair for the girls, This is what I came up with for Baby Mermaid!

So we did two dutch braids from ear to ear to make a wide headband.

 

Then we laced a ribbon in between the braids,

Added a black bow,

from the top

curled the backs with my straight iron and we were out the door!

School picture hair for Too Cool For Hair!

I always try to do something simple on school picture day but still diffrent than the rest of the kids,
this is what we came up with.....

We Just did a simple rope

Then we tucked it back and hooked it with bobby pins

and here is her awesome school picture! what a cutie!

Getting back to normal

Sorry, my life has been a whirl wind the last couple of weeks. My cute little Baby Mermaid was diagnosed with Tourettes yesterday, Two weeks ago the doctors warned us that this was coming (90% sure)That really knocked me over and it has taken a little bit to get back on my feet! But Needless to say she is still my little munchkin and I love her, It really has not changed our lives so much. We are still dealing with the tics that we have been dealing with for a year now. The best thing is we now know what the problem is and we can move forward! I just thought that I would let you all know, as I consider you all my friends

Heather

Wow DC in a week is not enough!

Our lives have been a whirl wind these last couple of weeks, some good, some bad, but I am sure to feel you in as things become more solid, however when I got home I found that we had taken somewhere close to 800 pictures and I am not going to post them all here so I will give  you a quick couple of pictures and tell you all what great kids I have and how thankful I am for the family that we stayed with! I have to say Dan & Jill are the best!!!!

The kids in front of the Washington monument!

bureau of engraving and printing

messing around on the Mall (I think it is time to mow!)

the White House

Too cool for hair and Bacon

we got to see the thinker, we were a little disappointed with the size! but here we are with the firepower pose!

For ASL class we got to go to Gallaudet university! It was really neat for two cool for hair! She wants to be a interpreter when she grows up.

Us in front of the Washington D.C. temple

My DH had a birthday on Vacation and he got to go with the boys to a Washington Nationals Baseball game! They had a blast and the best thing was I didn't have to go! (I am not athletical in any way)

Monkey man massaging feet after the long walk!

The Navy Museum! GO NAVY!!!!

air and space,

well that was just a few of our pics and highlights! I promise I am just about back to normal after a fantastic vacation,

Heather

D.C. days 3-4

when we made it to Ohio we decided to go to the great lakes, We have never been up there and it looked pretty close on the map so we took our picnic up to lake Erie, It was really windy but we had a great time!

like I said in my last post, please help me with my hair! its getting bigger and bigger! we had a great time splashing in the lake at this cute park, It was in this little Victorian area and so much fun!

here are the girls and monkey mans legs in the sign in front of the park, now back into the car,

now to Pennsylvania, the words that describe are: trees and hills, but I would call it the land of roadwork!

here is the back seat, poor packed in little people!

yeah we are almost there! We didn't get a picture of the Virginia sign because we got in after dark and it was really busy and had road work maybe later! but we made it and to everyone who thought we were nuts (Julie) It was so much fun! we saw a lot of things and my kids were great there was very little arguing and fighting lots of laughter and fun! More pictures later tonight or tomorrow!