35

So. My newest babysitter was born the year i graduated from high school. Yup. I'm officially OLD. But Doug is older. He turned 35 on Thursday and is feeling one step closer to the grave...

We enjoy food in our house. And we celebrate with lots of it. We woke him to gingerbread waffles with "white stuff" (Cool Whip) and blueberries and sang Happy Birthday over yummy yellow cake cupcakes (gluten-free, baby!). He opened his gifts (the knowledge that he will soon have a couple wonderful photos of me and the boys for his office, a punching bag and boxing gloves). He then played 18 holes of golf "on his way into work." For dinner it was a classic swiss fondue with bread, apples and steamed veggies. Once we finally got the boys to bed, we broke out a decadent non-GF chocolate/dark chocolate cake. It's the Perfectly Chocolate Cake on the back of the Hershey's cocoa box, but i just make the frosting darker. Delish. Then on Saturday we went out just the two of us to dinner and saw "The Dark Knight."

Happy birthday to the youngest 35 year old around!!

School Days

School started for Bode last Monday. He's in pre-K this year . It's at the same preschool that he had his summer dinosaur camp and it's been a really smooth transition. Beautifully smooth. I'm thrilled about it. He has griped everyday about going to school ("i don't like this school" etc.). But once we are in the parking lot, he grabs his backpack and gets on in the classroom. He was obviously anxious on Monday and still did well. Weds and Fri he was awesome. Each day i pick him up, he is happy and has positive things to say about his day. Anyway. I'm psyched and i hope he has a fantastic year!

The First Cut is the Deepest

I love Keegen's hair. It's thin and spare and wispy and does its own natural faux-hawk of sorts. It's a bit wild and crazy and it really suits his personality.

But then i saw some recent pictures and realized he really needed a cut. It was hanging over his ears and too long in the back and just looked, well, silly. Sillier than just a faux-hawk, if you're with me.

So the other day, while i got some much needed time to myself, Doug took the boys to get haircuts. Bode needed some sprucing up, too, and was a super example to Keegen.

By Doug's account, Keegen did great. He sat in that big chair that just about swallowed him up with his arms gripping each armrest. I made it clear that i wanted the top pretty much left alone and to just have everything else cleaned up. I think he looks great!

Grizzly Golf

(the above title isn't accurate, but i'm willing to sacrifice accuracy for alliteration!)

The US Senior Golf Open is here in Colorado Springs this week at the Broadmoor Resort. Doug is a volunteer there and has been loving it. He's in charge of the 7th hole and an unexpected visitor came across from the 13th fairway yesterday. Doug said he was walking down the hole and saw something black out of the corner of his eye, looked and realized what it was, just 20 feet from him. He called out to the players ahead who scrambled out of the way. Kept things interesting, i suppose!

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-ussenioropen&prov=ap&type=lgns