Long Week

 It has been a long week.  It will be a longer month but at least we are on the way to getting through it.  This month is busy.  Not just busy but impossibly busy.  It looks like this:

Week 1 - Outreach to Townsville all week

Week 2 - Outreach to Mt Isa and regular work

Week 3 - Ekka week both Levi and I are off, Monday day off, Wednesday, Levi off as well

Week 4 - Outreach to Cairns all week and then the thing Levi has been waiting for; holiday in Cairns!

So I am back on the computer after a week to write on the blog.  Last night I was too busy with other things and my attendance here is going to be sporadic in the next month I am sure!  Levi is finally well enough to actually get out there and play.  There is still a residue of that illness, however.  This morning we went to swimming training and then met some friends at the BMX track.  A little way into that he started to fade and wanted to go home.  He spent the next two hours quietly plying with Legos and watching TV.  It isn't time that he normally would have needed, but it is less than this time last week!  So getting there, but slowly!

Last night in the shower Levi decided that he didn't want a fringe anymore and he cut it off.  I asked him why he didn't just tell me so I could help him.  He said that I always threw his hair away and he wanted to keep it.  So he cut it almost to the skin in huge chunks and also cut it at the back.  In the places that he cut the hair, I think he was lucky not to have cut himself it was so short.  So I did what every parent in my situation would do:

I took a photo of it!

And then I laughed and got out the number 3 buzzer and gave him a buzz cut.  Levi loved it and it is so fuzzy and soft, I can't resist running my hands through it.  That is the softest fuzz that I have ever felt.  Levi said that he wants a haircut every day so his hair doesn't have a chance to grow.  I said that I thought it would be a long time before it was long enough to cut, so we could probably cut it every two weeks and still maintain it.

 The mancub was very excited but I wish we could have got there a more legitimate way.  Still it will stop him getting nits in his hair from school and it will save on shampoo and generally make it easier to wash.  And I can run my hands through his hair!  He is such a snugly thing too!



Tooth Fairies and Cranky Children

Tonight the tooth fairy finally came.  I really mean finally! He lost his tooth about 3 days ago but we have been too busy at night that it has been impossible for the fairy to make it happen.  But tonight it finally happened.  I got a ring box from a jeweler in the mall and when they heard what I wanted it for they searched through and found a cute boyish box and were very into the whole thing.  "Power to the Tooth Fairy" they said as I left.  He put out his tooth.  This is what he will wake up to:

Levi was fairly cranky this afternoon but I think it is mostly because the weekend was so busy.  He was tired and wound up and started to push the limits.  I had to give Levi a haircut tonight as well, as if we had enough time!  This morning, Levi decided that he wanted to send his Dad something in the mail.  I don't have a problem with that, it was because he decided to send him his hair.  After huge chunks were taken out of his hair and there was a plastic bag full, he was happy.

So consequently he now has a Really short cut (About number 3 razor) and Robert is about to get a chunk of hair - in the mail!