Preschool Graduation

After 8 months of classes, Chris graduated from preschool last Thursday. It was at the same time as Ben's pack meeting, so Bryce took Ben, Alex, and Daniel to pack meeting and I took Chris and Abby to the graduation. That's how Chris wanted it. He can be pretty silly sometimes.

It was actually pretty entertaining for a graduation like that. She kept it short, so the kids actually paid attention and seemed to have fun. I think Chris' favorite part was the dvd slideshow she made and gave to everyone. He will watch it 3 or 4 times in a row and wants to show it to everyone who comes over.

Here's Chris marching in with his class. I could tell they had practiced a little bit.


In this picture, he's leading the class in naming all the months of the year. They started out really well, but started having problems around September. :)


Here they are watching the dvd slideshow.


After every class, they would end with a class hug, so at graduation they did one last group hug. Chris didn't want to join in, but in this picture, he looks like he was sad to be left out. Nope, that's just him.


Here he is with the gift bag his teacher provided. There was a picture of the class, a school t-shirt in his favorite color, and the dvd.


They sang two songs for us all at the graduation. I recorded them both, but the one I was going to post was taking too long to upload, so I gave up. Chris cracked me up because he wasn't really singing, but was mouthing the words with exaggeration. So funny.

Congratulations on your preschool graduation, Chris!

Trying Red

For a long time, I've wished I had the courage to try to dye my hair red, just to see what it would look like. And I could never get the courage to do it. I've done highlights before and liked those, and I'm usually pretty brave when it comes to trying new hair styles, but for some reason I haven't been brave with going red.

The other night I was telling Bryce about that, how I've always kind of wanted to try red. He said, "You should get some red hair color and buy a box of brown too, then if you don't like the red, you can just color it back to brown." Seriously, it had never occurred to me to do that. I knew I could color it back if I didn't like it, but I always kind of thought I'd have to go to the store with my ugly color on my head to buy a new box to fix it.

Anyway, yesterday I was at the store with my 3 youngest kids, and since I was over by that section anyway, I stopped to look at the hair color. I picked up the box of red and asked them if I should color my hair red. Daniel got really excited and said I should, so I decided I could go ahead and buy a box. I picked up a box of brown too, just in case.

Then I got home and debated for a couple of hours if I really wanted to try it. I don't know why it made me so nervous to try. Maybe it's because I've never colored my own hair, and red is a bolder color and isn't quite the same thing as highlights, where most of my hair is still its original color.

Then I finally decided to jump in and do it. My kids were fascinated watching me, and kept coming back to check on me and see what was going on. So far I like it. It's not that much different, so more subtle. Ben and Alex didn't even notice until I asked them if they thought my hair looked different.

So anyway, here are a few pictures I took to show what my hair looks like: