Wacky Hair Day

Today is wacky hair day at Livingston's school. We got up this morning and brainstormed what he wanted to do for his hairdo and set to work. When his bus got here this morning, I could hear the cheering from the other six students in the bus as well as the bus driver, she even got on the intercom/bus speaker and said that his hair was awesome so that I could hear her. Hahaha...He rocks!

He opted for a double mohawk instead of just one. I kept trying to convince him of doing one mohawk but he insisted on two. I think he was right, two is cooler!

I love the colors too, luckily I had both cans to use on him. :)

Kung Fu

I've noticed that this past year, Livingston has been drawing more and more (today he was working on drawing four leaf clovers). He used to enjoy coloring...to a point...as he was growing up but it seems like he is truly enjoying going and getting crayons and paper more now a days. That makes me really happy because he didn't seem that interested before. Maybe it was just him being a boy and wanting to run and jump tirelessly rather than sit still and create. He has always loved to craft with me and cook. He never gets tired of cooking and in turn sometimes it's hard for me to get him out of the kitchen too! I hope he'll become an amazing cook one day so I don't have to worry about him when he goes to college. Hahaha...

This evening Livingston and I went outside so that he could show me some of his kung fu moves. He did a lot of jump kicks and showed me some of his staf work, he is so surprisingly coordinated, so unlike me...unless I'm dancing. Otherwise I'm kinda clutzy.

This is my favorite photo, he jumped so high that I lost his head in the frame.

He has been working super hard on cart wheels and can do like 10 or so without passing out from the dizzyness! I'd lose my dinner if I was doing it, man, boys and their endless amount of energy!!!

The sweet sound of music

Today we took my oldest son Livingston to his new school's open house to meet with his kindergarten teacher and check out the surroundings. He's usually a pretty confident kid, but admitted that he was a bit nervous about going to a 'big boy' school. I would've loved to bottle up his excitement from our visit, because I haven't seen him that excited over something in quite some time (well, other than when I drove him up to Six Flags and pretended we were going to go on one of my boring business meetings, for him only to realize we were in for a day of 'Mommy and me' fun). After meeting with the teacher, we let him lead the way to the gym for the moonbounce that was brought in especially for today. He bounced for a little bit then was smooshed by a falling bigger kid and wanted to get out of the bounce and go explore his school more. We found the cafeteria, office and library. I got to peek into the computer lab as well...I can't believe how many computers are in schools now. WOW. Even his classroom has about 4-5 computers.

Finally, Livingston wanted to visit the music room, because to those who know him well, know that music is how he breathes and drumming is his heartbeat. We found the nice sized music room and was pleased to meet the teacher who is a lovely Japanese lady with a warm smile. Anyhow, she does knows about Japanese taiko drumming (his absolute favorite type of drumming) and said that she had drums in her class that they get to play also. I think he's in love. I actually think I saw the cartoon bubble hearts floating out of his chest. Drawback: music class starts in first grade...poor guy...one more year of daydreaming of Ms. Y. and her classroom drums.

Right now, all is at peace in the house, everyone is either in quiet time or napping (including Daddy!) and I get to have "mommy quiet time" that I always crave, and alas the egg timer will ring soon, and it will be time to return to my boys of chaos.