Five Sense Friday

I can't promise this will happen each Friday. (We all know what happened with Project 52. *blush*) But I'd like to try my hand at spending a day a week enjoying my world through my senses that I often take for granted. I think this will be fun to try to come up with images of everyday things...and some not-so-every-day-things (like eggs dropping on your rug).

If any fellow bloggers would like to join me on my Five Sense Fridays (or Tuesdays, or any day it gets done), I'd love the company and mental support and inspiration!

You can imagine my surprise when I woke up, after a beautiful 60 degree yesterday, to find this sight! My eyes were in shock!!!

Another first this morning was opening the refrigerator to the scent of wonderfully ripe strawberries. (That made the offending alarm of the snow a little less harsh.)

While the kids were in school, I practiced the piano and did a mighty fine job of making sure my hand placement was correct since I'm teaching myself to play the piano from Tarryn's lesson books. My treble-clef is fine (being that I used to play the accordian *hides head in hands*), it's the bass-clef that needs help. Touching those keys makes my heart soar.

My heart did the opposite of soaring, and sunk when I heard that all-to-familiar sound of an egg breaking when my adorable nephew decided to not get the dip out of the fridge for his chicken nuggets, but to try a hand at making his own.... On the rug.

But everything has ended well since Makade and I have tasted the fruits of our labor and enjoyed a chocolate chip cookie...or two.

Cut! (that's a wrap)

Did you know that there are superstitions regarding babies-first-haircut?! I found this out the first time I took Tarryn in when the hair-dresser was thrilled to be doing her first cut. She told me it brings the person (performing the cut) good luck and she was ecstatic to be the recipient of good luck in her life at that moment in time.

The girls at Cookie Cutters must have no trouble walking through life with sunshine galore and maybe even a bluebird on their shoulder. These wonderful gals deal with kids and young ones all day long! On the 20th, Ashley got the 'blessing' of cutting Kellan's hair for his first professional cut.

Psst....I'm sneaky and make sure that I am the first one to cut each baby's hair (since Tarryn) because I need all the luck I can get!

Anyway, it's not like Kellan has a lot of hair, it's just that he needed things evened out. He (predictably) was an angel while Ashley cut his hair. They make you feel like a star at Cookie Cutters and give you the royal treatment. Kids get to pick a movie (Kellan watched Dora), then pick an automobile to sit in (the fire-truck), and after the cut (or during in Kellan's case) they get to pick a balloon with (can you guess?) a cookie cutter attached to the string so it doesn't fly away. This is my kind of place when I don't have to fight my children to get their hair cut. And that's a wrap!

He even got a certificate for his first professional cut. How cute! ~~~Too bad I don't scrap-book.

Splish Splash...

They were takin' a bath... Long about a Saturday 'night.
Rub-a-dub, just relaxin' in the tub, thinking that their hair was alright.