Noses in the books

Homework is the word of the day around these parts. Actually it is the word of the month. School is winding down, the girls only have 3.5 weeks left to go and things are slowing down considerably in the homework department or at least they were. Last Monday one of Lilys teachers gave her a pretty hefty project, a 28 page story, to be turned into a book, complete with jacket illustrations, dedication pages etc etc.. The child has been working on it like a maniac every day. I love the story line that she has come up with but just can't wait for her to finish it. She doesn't type very fast and it has to be typed. I have offered to help her by doing some typing for her but you all know Lily, she is not about to accept help with her homework. The due date is looming so it is going to be a long weekend. She can't even start the drawings until she has finished her story.

I just don't understand why it has been given at this late stage in the game. Really, I don't?

Yesterday when I picked Rosie up she was carrying a cardboard cut out of a person. Oh goody, another project! Thankfully since she is only in pre-K this one is considered a family project and we had to transform Flat Paper Person into Rosie. Rosie has to be wearing a summer outfit.

This is what it looked like in our house at approximately 3.30 this afternoon:
I give you, Homework Central.



The only place where Lily can be found lately.

Rosie colouring her shoe

Concentrating and hard at work

At approximately 5.pm Summertime Rosie was born.

I think this is the face, only a mother can love

She even gave herself a manicure.

If I don't reappear tomorrow to blog it's because this book project has pushed me over the edge and I am banging my head against the wall.

Time for more oddball poses

A couple of weeks ago it was Picture Day at the kidlets school. This meant that they didn't have to wear their uniforms. I get a glimpse into the lives of parents whose kids don't wear uniforms for school each day and let me say it must be hell. I think I'll wear this, no this, or what about this. Oh no wait, this would be pretty, or perhaps this with my hair in a braid and do you think I should wear this and some bracelets? GAH, and this was all the night before as I knew we would have to get up at 4am to tackle such a huge endeavour and still manage to be ready on time.

I knew it would be a waste of time as the photogs' hired by the school district are less than stellar. They pose the kiddies at odd angles and have poor lighting but we have to buy the pictures because it is written in the Parent Handbook under the Mandatory segment. We do not however buy the whole package, 4 sheets, as that would cost $80 for both of them. Now if they would take them sitting or standing together it might be an option but they won't.

Lily was mad cos they wouldn't give her a second to switch her "really pretty Sophia Jane Boutique hair pretties" to the other side so that they would show up in the photo. LOL and Rosie, well she doesn't bother to much about the way she looks so she just smiled and that was it.

I still like the photos. They are better than I expected even with the, h

and on hip, I have a 'tude, pose.

Lily is starting to get a bit too skinny or it seems this way to me. She looks like Olive Oyl here. They are so pretty even with a bad photog at the helm.

Another sign they are growing up

Neither of my girls had much hair when they were little. Lily really didn't have any at all until she was four. Rosie's grows much faster but it is so thin and flyaway that you can't do anything with it. Lily's is now long and thick. It's the long part that is making me crazy but she decided after hearing about how kids that get treated for cancer lose their hair and having met a little girl going through chemo, that she wants to grow her hair to donate it.

Locks of Love, the biggest of the organisations that makes wigs for kids has earned itself a bad rap recently as they sell more hair than they use to make wigs. They have lots of reasons/excuses but they are losing ground. Pantene now has a program, they are partnering with the American Cancer Society and the hair needs to be eight inches long. Wigs for Kids is also a great program but the donation needs to be 12 inches long. Lily wants to work with Wigs for Kids. Groan. Do you realise how long her hair will be before she can cut it? BLECH. I am not a hair person. I particularly don't like long hair on little kids.

Not much I can do about it though as her heart is in the right place.

When they were little I always went to a kids salon for their haircuts and then Lily decided she was to old so we started going to just a chain of hairdressing salons but each time we got someone different and they never spoke English and it was getting to be a right hassle. Yesterday I finally had a brainwave and took them to Jill, my hairdresser for the past 10 yrs. They know Jill and she knows them. It was perfect. They got the whole salon treatment, sat as still as statues, well Rosie not so much and we left really happy.

Rosie wants her hair to be as long as Lily's. I told Jill to just take the ends off of Rosies and then held up my fingers to show her how I really meant at least an inch! That child just can't have long hair yet, it's to flyaway.





They just look so grown up in these photos in the big black capes. I kinda miss the itty bitty kiddy ones. Sigh.