Graci"s New Do

I guess this is what I get when I have four boys and only one girl. The older boys decided that they wanted to make Graci look like a boy so they convinced her to play hairshop. They quietly lured her to the basement and told her that they wanted to play with her. Graci being only two went along with it. Gavin got some safety scissors from the cuboard and proceeded to cut off one entire half of my sweet little woman's hair. Graci thought that it was fun of course. Then, instead of coming and telling mom and dad what had happened the other boys helped hide the evidence. Gage gathered up all of the hair and threw it away. Gibson stashed the scissors in the toy room so that we couldn't find them. John and I just put the kids to bed without ever noticing anything. We were tired and couldn't get kids to bed fast enough. We didn't find out about this fun little game until the next morning when I went to comb Graci's hair. I was devastated!! My only little girl, my one bonding partner, my little doll that I play dress up with, was missing half of her beautiful hair!!! I called Margeaux in tears and she came out to finish the job. It was so hard to watch. But, when she was done Graci was happy, and I have to admit, that even though I was still sad, she looked darling! She could have a crew cut and still look like a doll face. So, we had a family meeting about being honest and about choosing the right, and the boys all said that they were sorry. Her hair will grow back, but I'm afraid that this is just the beginning of chilren conspiring against their parents!

From the Mouth of Babes

It's so funny how honest little children can be. John and I try to teach our children manners and how to be polite. They really try, but unlike adults that can be polite on the outside but inside they are thinking what they would really like to say, children just say what they are thinking no matter. Example- We were coming home from Idaho and stopped in Tremonton for lunch at McDonalds. That is always a scary thing for me because I'm afraid that my kids will be mean to other kids and then I get chewed out by the mother. But, we stopped so the kids to get out of the car for a while. We went in and their were a few kids playing and our children just joined in. Well, there were some little girls that thought it would be fun to torment our boys and started to tease them and call them names. I took our kids aside and explained to them that even if the girls are being mean that we always are polite and say nice things about others. The kids went back and played for a few minutes and suddenly Gibson came running to me jumping up and down with excitement. He yelled in his loudest voice "Mom, I said nice things to those girls even though they are knuckle heads!!". I probably should have told him that wasn't nice but I couldn't stop laughing. I think I learned a valuable lesson that day-teaching your kids to be polite is good, but sometimes just telling it like it is might be better, becuase sometimes people really are just a bunch of knuckle heads!!