Haircuts and Earrings and Permits, oh my!

A little catch up from our BUSY week!! Grant finished up school last week, Sophie is home for the summer with our WONDERFUL nanny and Morgan has had final exams all this week and finishes up school today! Summer is finally here! The weather has started to become beautiful and I feel as if we have not had much of a chance to enjoy it yet, but looking forward to it before it becomes so stifling hot outside!

Tonight, Sophie got her third haircut of her life! "Aunt" Julie gave it to her and she looks so adorable with a few inches taken off for the summer. She was so excited to get her hair washed, cut and dried in the hair salon! She sat so still and looked so cute, I just had to take pictures (you know me)! Here are the before, during and after pics!







It was a big week for Morgan too... not only did she turn 16 and have final exams and her summer volunteer position interviews this week, but it was also time to get her DRIVERS PERMIT! Oh my! I cannot believe that MY CHILD is old enough to be behind the steering wheel of a car! While I know she is responsible and for the next 6 months, has to be with an adult 21 or older while she learns (she will also take Drivers Ed), it makes me a nervous wreck to think she will soon be driving away from home and I will have to hold my breath and pray until she arrives back home safely each time. I hope her guardian angel is ready to start working overtime!

She leaves for a vacation in South Carolina with her friend, Olivia, and her family today after school. She will be gone ten days... soaking up the sun on the beach and visiting colleges on the way down. I am going to miss her but know that she will have so much fun! Boy, giving your child "wings" is hard!

As a surprise for her birthday, I took her out to the mall after her birthday dinner and let her get her cartilage pierced in her ear... this was something she has been begging me for for a really long time and I have always said no. I have to admit, it does look cute and I have told her no more piercings on her body!! Of course, I embarrassed her by pulling out my camera... but that is a mother's prerogative right?




We will have her Sweet Sixteen birthday party in June with a friend of hers... Oh boy!

And, lest I forget... Bug also got her stitches out on Tuesday. She was SO BRAVE! Two nurses came in to hold her down and she just laid there all by herself perfectly still while the doctor cut her stitched off. He says the scar looks great... I thought it still looked a bit scary, but he IS the Plastic Surgeon, so I will hope that what he thinks is good will be for her...

This was taken two days after they were taken out... and the healing is going nicely. Just a little bruising still around her eye and a red mark in the white of her eye. It is amazing how fast they heal!



I also had pictures done of all three kids a couple weeks ago and have not had a chance to post them here... I think they turned out really cute!






And my favorites of each of the kids by themselves...

Morgan - age 16


Grant - age 13


Sophia - age 3


Have a wonderful weekend!!!