Mother's Day

This year, mother's day was dominated by pink eye. We skipped church, did not go out anywhere for dinner and pretty much stayed close to home. We called the pediatrician on-call Sunday morning for antibiotic drops for Benjamin. We hoped we could knock it out in 24 hrs.

Yep, that was 4.5 days ago. We've been to the pediatrician twice now. His eye seemed to be improving this morning but was still not better. By tonight, I'm not convinced that he's getting better at all. I'm preparing myself for something worse tomorrow, and of course a third trip to the pediatrician. Good thing we like our pediatrician. Speaking of that, Jasper is in love with one of the nurses. Miss Marilyn. She gives him truck stickers.

So, yes ... Mother's Day. Jasper told me in advance that he bought me a card with a bus on it. He thought it was awesome, and of course it was. It's fun now to have him be a part of the process. It was a beautiful day here - warm, but beautiful.



After our photo op, it was time to cut Jasper's hair. Nana's been doing this on her visits, but we can't wait for the next time we see Nana.


In order to get Jasper to sit still, we let him watch Cars.

Benjamin got a little introduction to Cars during the hair cutting, too. He liked it.

Jasper gets too hot outside in our Texas heat with his long hair. So, we had to be a little aggressive. I was nervous!

As you can see, the powers of Pixar are overwhelming to him. He cannot look away.

The final result is a little scruffy ... I had to do some touch-ups on Monday. But it's shorter now. That was the objective, and I'm not mortified to take him out in public - which was also a goal. :)

All that being said, the poor boy still gets hot outside. He was wearing his fireman hat while we were outside yesterday afternoon, and his hair was drenched from sweat in no time. It was so bad Drew thought Jasper had already had a bath when he got home from work. nope!