My Personal Hair Salon

Miss Monkey is doing my hair while I sit here at the computer.  She came up with a new hairdo and is trying it out in my hair.  She calls it Mermaid Lagoon.  So far it has mostly involved lots of brushing and combing and moving my part around. 

I love it when she does my hair.  I always loved having my Mom do my hair when I was a kid.  And I love that I have someone to do my hair now.  Even though she is only five.  It is so soothing and comforting to me.  My body relaxes and I don't have a care in the world. 

I love that Miss Monkey likes to do hair.  She likes all girly and feminine things.  Bows and dresses and perfume and lip gloss.  She says she likes to make people fancy.  She sets up her little beauty parlor about once a week.

I am not so girly.  I really like feminine things and beautiful things and feeling like a girl, but it doesn't come as naturally to me as it does to Miss Monkey.  I just recently figured out how to properly apply eye liner.  Miss Monkey was right there with me every step of the way.  She was so proud of me that she made a special announcement that night at the dinner table.  "Guess what everyone?  Mom learned how to use her eye liner today!"  I'm hoping I can learn a few things from her. 

Adventures on a Bus

Our town is not real big.  But it is big enough to have public transportation.  Free public transportation, at that!  Oh yes!  There are 2 bus routes to choose from.  Between the two you can get pretty much anywhere you would care to go in this little town of ours.  We love it!

Yesterday Miss Monkey, Little Man, and I needed do to some birthday shopping.  So instead of driving in our van, we took the bus. 

The closest bus stop to our house is just a sign next to the sidewalk.  It works well, but is not the most enjoyable on a rainy day.  So we walked an extra block and a half and were able to sit in a nice covered bus stop. 

Oh, and yes, we were wearing coats.  Spring has been very slow in coming to this neck of the woods. 

The bus came, and we climbed aboard!

We read an old Family Circus comic book during the ride.  They don't always get it, but they usually like the pictures. 

It wasn't long before we arrived downtown.  We started shopping but then had to find a bathroom as quick as possible.  Turned out the closest one was at the bagel shop across the street.  Into the bagel shop we went, used the bathroom, and then bought two pizza bagels.  I just can't walk all the way through a store, use their bathroom, and then leave again without buying anything.  I can't!  Way too much guilt. 

With full tummies we resumed our shopping.  We found just what we had been looking for, plus lots of requests for future birthdays, and made our purchases. 

While waiting for the bus to come to take us home, we hung out around the fountain.

It was so fun!  The kids were great, and were thoroughly worn out when we got home.  Gas was saved and our shopping was done!  Mission accomplished.

All Girls Outing to the Quilt Show

On Saturday I took my girls to a local quilt show.  It's a tradition I'm trying to instill.  They do think quilts are very pretty things and were way excited to go.  They even counted down the days!  . 

It was fun for me to see how each girl acted at the show. 

Miss Banana really wanted to study the quilts and take time to look at each one.  She had some definite favorites.   (sorry for the blurriness)

Miss Bear liked every quilt, but wouldn't look at one quilt for longer than 5 seconds.  I couldn't tell if she was bored or really excited.  I wasn't able to get a picture of her because she did not sit still even once.  I should have told her that I wanted to take her picture.  I think that might have stopped her for a minute.

Miss Monkey loved every quilt with any pink in it. She was mostly just happy to be out with the girls.  She did find a cute little monkey to adore.  And yes, she did dress herself and do her own hair.  She is 4, you know.

We didn't stay very long, but did enjoy our time together and we are all looking forward to next year.

Pink Carnations

On Friday I bought a bunch of pink carnations at the grocery store.  There were so many that I could barely fit them all in my wide mouthed jar that I like to use as a vase.

This is all that was left by Saturday morning.  Miss Monkey liked them so much that she took most of them to bed with her Friday night.  Little Man picked the little purple flowers in the yard and brought them to me.