My titles may not be clever or creative, but at least they are descriptive.
Yesterday while Stacy and Paul were gone all day at a wedding, we had a pretty low-key day of hanging out at home and running errands. Included in these errands was getting Nicholas a haircut, which was only marginally successful. Not only did Nicholas go so absolutely ballistic that the guy eventually gave up and we had to finish trimming around the ears and neck with Joe's razor, but Nicholas' hair is
way shorter than it has ever been or than we'd like. But at least hopefully this means that we won't have to get it cut for awhile. Is it just me or does the haircut make him look much older?
Here Nicholas is showing off the puppets he and I made yesterday morning while Joe and I were trying to buy ourselves a little more downtime at home. One is obviously turned around the wrong way.
Today (after church and a special doughnut treat for being downright angelic in church) we went mini golfing at the place around the corner from our apartment.
11 am on a Sunday is apparently the perfect time to go because there were so few people there that we could take up multiple holes, take our time, etc.
Nicholas had a great time hitting the ball in the hole, although he almost always set his ball just 3-4 inches away from the hole.
Unless he had help from Mommy, of course.
Most of the time he was content to use the little plastic club they gave him.
But about 2/3 of the way through, he discovered the grown up clubs. And there was no going back.
He was very well-behaved and had a lot of fun for an hour. But at about hole 15, he got bored and became difficult. But overall, a great time, and he has been talking about it all evening.
Oh my, he does look older with the haircut!
ReplyDeleteI keep wanting to take Abby mini-golfing but the attention span thing is likely even shorter for her for something like that. :)
I think the post inadvertently gave a rosier assessment of Nicholas's attention span than the reality. It was only because there was no one within eight holes of us on either side that it worked, because Nicholas spent only about 10% of his time on the hole that the adults were playing at the time. He spent a good ten minutes with the log tunnel, and another fifteen trying to figure out a setup at one of the holes where it looks like you're hitting it in, but it's actually a tube leading to a different level. If anyone at all had been there without small children, we would have been screwed.
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