Colton's bad day

OK, so I don't always pay as much attention to the boys when I'm on the internet. I am sitting at the computer holding Colton while Nate and Josh are playing Battleship. Then Josh grabs some printer paper so he could draw. So, that's what I thought he wanted it for. We bought Nate some little kids scissors so Josh now thinks that he can use them also. Well, little did I know that Josh had found the scissors from wherever they were at but I didn't know he had just made a mess in the family room with lots of little pieces all over the ground. Then he came over to Colton and I, he was playing with Colton so I wasn't paying much attention to what Josh was actually doing. I never saw it coming because I was clueless that in Josh's little hands were scissors and he was cutting at Colton's hair. I told him no and told him to go cut paper. Well, he tried going for it again so I took the scissors away. I thought I had saved Colton's head from his big brother, only to discover a on the back of his shirt was a clump of his precious, soft, brown hair. I did uncover where it was cut from and I don't think that anyone but me will notice. It's right on the crown of his head, part of a nice little calick that he has. I tried taking a picture of the clump of hair and Colton's head but you really couldn't see what I was taking it of. So, once again, Josh is at the center of yet another hair cutting session. He is obsessed with hair, who knows, maybe he'll grow up to do hair. Haha. His father wouldn't let that happen. It was bad enough that he has a bad scratch right by his nose from himself or Josh, I'm not sure who, and now he has a patch of hair missing. He's such a sweet guy to have that kind of crappy day. So, from now on I vow to pay more attention to my son's when I'm on the computer.

Bakin' with the Boys

Josh is my big helper, all covered in flower.

Of course we couldn't leave Colton out, he had to "supervise" us.

Nate helps me decorate some snowmen. He did pretty good too.

Danny and Colton all bundle up, ready to head to the neighbors.

Josh next to his plate of cookies because I don't trust him to carry them yet.

Can you tell by Nate's face that he was super excited to carry a plate of cookies.

So, I decided we would make some sugar cookies today and deliver them to our neighbors for Christmas. We have been here for 6 months and really haven't met our neighbors to much. I was going to give them the dvd "Mr Kroeger's Christmas" with the cookies but I decided to hold off this year. I just want to get to know them first. And I guess I also had an ulterior motive for giving them treats, I am hoping it's a way to get to know them and then I can feel safer when Danny is gone next year by knowing my neighbors as well as they can keep an eye on my home when I go to Utah in March. We only got 2 of the 3 neighbors tonight, we will try the other one tomorrow. But I think we kind of took everyone off guard by delivering a gift. But it felt good to do something neighborly. Our neighbor to the left, Amy, happened to come back over like 15 minutes after we got home and brought us a DVD of a Charley Brown Christmas movie for the boys to borrow. So, we got talking and I learned that her daughter was in the Peer Model program last year, at the same school Nate goes to, with the same teacher, Mrs Debbie. And she asked what church we go to and I told her we were Mormon. She asked if we went to the church in Platte Woods, because I guess she used to go with friends all the time to that one. I don't know if she talked with missionaries or not, I think she kind of insinuated that but I want her to feel like we can be friends first and for now just know that we are members of the church. I did invite her and her kids to join us for primary whenever they wanted, that they are always welcome to come with us. So, for now, that's where it stands. But it's such a weird world we live in. But I think the boys also had fun delivering cookies in the frigid cold, single digit, below zero weather.

Colton got all bundled up and that's all he needed, he drifted off to sleep before we even headed out. I love how precious they look when they sleep. To sum it all up, I'm glad we made cookies, it may have been a small thing but it felt good to do something nice for others.