Wild West Corn Maze

Saturday we ventured out to the wild west to trudge through the snow petting animals, climbing hay bails, and running through corn mazes catching criminals.  It was such a fun family day.  The girls absolutely loved the animals, and maze, and climbing….okay so they LOVED it all.  Every second.  I have always loved corn mazes and this one was such a fun one, they had you searching for clues on who committed some barnyard crime.  It was such a fun way to do the maze. 

Fancy beards and ear hair.  Who doesn’t like a little facial hair??

Snow!!

We love the snow at our house and this week we got a good taste of it.  Sadie just happen to have a half day and no school the next day.  It was pretty much heaven for her.  She spent hours outside by herself while Pipes was at preschool and then with Piper. 

Finn spent his time like this, looking longingly out the window watching her.  He absolutely loves to be outside.  Anytime someone steps outside he has to follow or there is a whole lot of sadness. 

The snow didn’t deter him so.  He wanted out so badly so I gathered up Pipers old snow clothes and geared him up with her pink flowered boots, gloves and snow pants.  He was one happy boy.

P.S.  notice all the huge houses behind us.  They’ve shot up like crazy.  Our beautiful view of the mountains is gone.  I’ve had such mixed emotions about all of this building going up all around us.  At first I was so excited, it’s nice to have some activity around here and I’m very excited about the cutback of wind, dust, weeds, rabbits, prairie dogs, crazy allergies from said wind/dust/weeds.  Those things all make me extremely happy, but the day the started on the two houses directly behind us my emotions started to change.  The first day I found myself hoping beyond hope they were going to be ranch homes, but by day two it was very apparent they were not.  2 days.  That’s all I had to mourn my view of the mountains.  It all happened too fast.  I felt like I didn’t truly love them as I should have until they were gone.  sad, sad day.  Now that the houses are fully up we do have a small sliver off to the side where we can still see nice view, but it just isn’t the same. 

We’ve lived so long without neighbors I’m really not so excited about the prospects of houses on all sides of us.  We realized we’ve never had neighbors behind us since we’ve been married.   First we lived in the converted “chicken coop” which was in the backyard of the main house, but the yard was big  enough and turned kind of side ways so we didn’t really have a house directly behind us, then in Milwaukee our house had a detached garage behind it, so once again no backyard neighbors, and then now.  We’ve had so much privacy, our one side neighbors here were a young married couple who we never ever saw so really it felt like we didn’t have people on either side or behind us.  I’m realizing how nice that can be.  Our one side neighbors have now moved and we have houses going up on all sides of us.  The changes are a little fast for me, but since we have no choice in the matter I guess we’ll learn to love it. 

Here comes trouble

that describes this little man to a T.  He’s a busy body these days.  He’s into everything and ONTO everything.  If there is something he can climb, he’ll be on top of it in seconds.  Namely the table and desk in our kitchen.  I pull him off, he’s back on as fast as his little legs can run him there.  off….back on, repeat, repeat continuously through out the day. 

trouble in action

He’s sure cute, but he is one determined boy.  Luckily for now he can’t reach doorknobs so we can keep him semi contained for now anyway.  We’re going to be in big trouble when he grows a little and can reach those.  I’ll cherish the days I can shut him out of bathrooms/sewing room and all other sorts of trouble. 

Sadie’s new do

I know you’ve been dying to see what the damage actually looks like and I finally convinced Sadie that one day she’d want a picture of it to show her kids when something crazy happens to them.  So here it is. 

Sometimes it really doesn’t look to bad, and then the hair flops over and reveals all.   It’s a bit more dramatic from the side view.

And this is all covered up!!  This is how excited she is that we can cover it!  It stays this way for probably 10 min., but it’s better than nothing.

In case you were curious…

what would happen if you got your head too close to your kitchen aid mixer. 

This is the result.

The other side of this is a slightly bald little girl who was so sad and embarrassed I couldn’t bring myself to document it except for the hair casualty she left behind. 

This picture doesn’t quite do it justice to how much hair is actually wrapped around it.  It was quite a lot especially from a girl who didn’t have tons to begin with.  This beautiful hair piece is courtesy of  Miss Sadie Kay.   It ripped out all of her hair on the top left 1/4 of her head leaving only her small growth baby hair fuzz behind.  I had my back turned and her head was just bobbing up and down with every revolution.  It was so so sad!  I ran and turned it off and she just stood up with a dazed scared look on her face touching her head.  The craziest part is that we didn’t have to cut her hair away.  As soon as I turned it off she was free.  It had pretty much scalped her and pulled the hair straight out from the root.  Her forehead is now super sore and bruised, but she says her scalp doesn’t hurt. 

She was so sad and embarrassed for awhile she wouldn’t even look in the mirror.  I felt so bad for her, poor girl.  I hope the kids at school are nice and don’t make fun of her.  That’d break my heart.  I tried to reassure her that we’d think of some creative ways to do her hair so it’s not quite so noticeable, hopefully I can come up with more ways than the comb-over side pony tail she’ll be rocking for the next while.  Too bad they can’t wear hats to school. 

Hair grows.  Thankfully.