Leaf's first hair cut

 Well after 2 and a half years, Leaf decided he wanted his hair cut so he could "pike" it like Everest's. Nathan was hesitant because I cried for a week the first time Nathan "trimmed" Everest's hair. In my defense, he was only 18 months and still my baby boy. When Nathan cut it, he was no longer my baby boy. I also was not prepared, we talked about cutting his hair, I thought we discussed cutting his bangs, but when I walked into the room, half of his hair was gone. Nathan must have asked me a million times, if I was sure about cutting Leaf's hair.

Big brother needed a hair cut too, so he went first.

Leaf waiting patiently. This is the last picture of his beautiful curly hair.

He was surprisingly still MOST of the time. Look at his face, he couldn't wait to see it.

A few curls I saved.

 The back...

Wow, does he look different!

It was almost bedtime, this was the best I got before the "pikes". I think Leaf's hair looks so much redder.

 

Nathan using some mousse in the boys hair to make "pikes". 

 Leaf with "pikey" hair.

 I loved his long hair, but this cut fits him and he loves it. My 2 1/2 year old is no longer a baby, he is a little boy. He is wearing his rocketship outfit I made him. I made them each a set. They love them. I haven't taken a good picture of the outfits yet and now that the camera has died, I might not get one.

 This was Leaf on the day our cabinets were delivered. He and Everest were very big helpers.

Purdue's Bug Bowl

 Purdue has Spring Fest and a Bug Bowl every year. We missed it last year, but heard from everyone how awesome it is. We went this year and the kids had a great time. They have chocolate covered bug and other foods with bugs in it. We wanted to try some, but never found the tent with them in it. We were too busy checking everything else out.

Everest petting a calf.

 Holding a duckling. You could choose a duckling, chick or turkey, he picked the duckling each time.

Leaf got to hold the duckling too.

 Leaf wanted to milk a cow...we waited in line, paid a dollar and when push came to shove, Leaf wanted nothing to do with milking a cow. Everest, who had refused to do it, when we got up there, he got brave and decided to try it.

 

We have been having ALL kinds of trouble with Leaf going to bed. He usually cries/screams, plays, talks to us or himself for 2-3 hours after we put him to bed. We have tried skipping nap and it only makes things worse. On the nights we skip naps, he is slap happy and too tired to fall asleep. This night he was mad so he threw every book off the bookshelf into the hallway.

 

Then fell asleep in Everest's bed.

Don't get too excited

Hello friends,

Well I am slowly deleting posts so I will be able to put up new pictures but.......our wonderful camera has died. After 8 years and almost 30,000 pictures, it died as Everest and Leaf were starting their treasure hunt Easter morning. I bought the camera for Nathan before we went on our honeymoon to Costa Rica. We are hoping to just buy a new body, because the lenses are still good. We shall see. We got our kitchen cabinets on Sat. We installed them Sunday and I have no pictures of them. Well a few from the phone. I tried to send the pictures to myself last night so I could post some, but they never sent. Today, Nathan's phone stopped working. He is going to look at it tonight and try to at least get pictures and contacts off of it. This must be the week for things to stop working for us. Both of our electric toothbrushes died this week!!!!!!! I am backing up our pictures because I know it is a matter of time before this laptop goes. In hindsight of all of this, it may be a few more weeks before I can get back to regularly posting pictures. Sorry.

Aurora after the bath. I love bath pictures, babies are so cute with hoodie towels on.

 This is Everest's bathtub drawing of our family -A mountain, tree and sky . It is hard to see so I took close up.

 This is a tree on the left side. He asked me to write Leaf's name in the leaf he drew.

 Here is the mountain with his name in it.

 Here is a man (that is what he said), standing on the mountain with the "spirits" going up in the sky. (He calls Aurora "the spirits" because of the movie Brother Bear, they refer to the Northern Lights as the spirits.)

 He asked me to write Aurora's name in the spirits.

In case you are wondering....

Hello All,

In case you are wondering, where we are....we are still here, but we are stuck.- I have all kinds of great pictures to share (Leaf got his hair cut, Aurora is crawling (a cross between army crawl and crawling), and we are making lots of good progress on our kitchen- the cabinets are in and being delivered this week!!!!!!- I tried to post 2 weeks ago and I got an error that I have used up all my space. Until I can delete some posts and pictures, I can't post anything else. My plan from the beginning was to turn our blog into a book, so this is motivating me to do it. I bought Creative Memories digital scrapbooking a few years ago (thanks Dawn and Francis for persuading me!). So I am making a digital scrapbook of our blog. But with 3 kids, a kitchen in progress, family visiting, a garden to plant, and the day to day activities of a family of 5, it is taking me a lot longer than I would expect. I only have 7 pages done! At the same time, I am trying to put the new posts into a book before I post them. So it may be a few more weeks before I can post again. I love blogging so I hope you will understand and check back with us in a few weeks.

Love,

The Mentzer Family (Fay, Nathan, Everest, Leaf, and Aurora)