Day 4

Faux bob:

This is a bit more difficult. I curled my hair with an iron, and sprayed it like crazy. Then I pulled everything from the bottom and back up and pinned it, so that my hair looks 6 inches shorter. Then I sprayed it like crazy again. Crazy.

Day 3

We are going to Turner Falls today, so I'm keepin it simple!

Braids:

I parted it, braided it, tied it, and ran out the door!

jewelry making

I have feeling a bit crafty of late, so I made some jewelry! 

I made myself a charm bracelet; I bought a few charms, I had a few from an old bracelet, and I made one.

This is the one I made. It's my favorite. It used to be a pair of earrings that my mom bought me while in New York City, but I lost one. So I turned the other into a charm!

I also made a charm bracelet for Portia. She picked out the charms. She has a giraffe, a hummingbird, a frog, a dolphin, an elephant, and a little box that actually opens. 

I'm pretty excited!

Feel free to shower me with compliments about my skills.

Just kidding.

Or am I?

Day 2

Day 2: Wrapped Pony

Can you tell I'm doing the easy styles first?

This is the easiest way to dress up a pony. I back-combed the crown a bit, and pulled it into a ponytail. I took a little strip of hair out of the bottom of my pony, and wrapped it around the hair tie, and pinned it. Done.

30-Day Hair Challenge

I have decided to do a 30-day Hair Challenge. Intrigued? I knew you would be.

I am going to do a different hairstyle every day for 30 days. I can't repeat any styles, and washing it and letting it air-dry doesn't count as a style. I will take a photo every day and post it up, along with any how-to's. I have gotten into a bit of a hair rut the last few months, and I saw this idea in a magazine a long time ago, and thought it would be kinda fun. It's going to be pretty interesting to come up with something different every day, since I don't have a lot of extra time with 2 kiddos, but I'll do my best!

Day 1: Sleek and straight

This is probably the easiest style for me (aside from a ratty pony) because my hair is naturally straight. I washed my hair last night, and went to bed with it kinda wet, so I just hit the part with a blow-dryer this morning to get my cowlick to behave. Then I divided my hair up in sections and ran a flat iron from roots to tips. Pretty easy stuff.

  

On another note, This is what I'm listening to:

Remember that time the Spice Girls reunited for the closing ceremonies of the Olympics? That was awesome.

library adventures

Sometimes I wonder why I have so much gray hair.

I took the girls out in public today.
Its been so hot and we haven't ventured outdoors much in the last few days, I thought they needed to get out. We stopped by Sonic on the way and got drinks (juice for Portia, Dr. Pepper for Mommy), and headed to the library. As we got out of the car, I reminded Portia that there is a bathroom here, and if she needs to go, she should come tell me. We went in and started playing, and sure enough, after a few minutes, Portia came and told me she had to pee.
The Norman library has a bathroom just for kids that is great. Everything is smaller, so the kids can come in and go without help. Portia loves it. I scooped up Margot, and we headed in. Portia did her business and we went back out to play.
A few minutes later, I noticed Portia standing off by herself, very still (bad sign)! You guessed it folks. She had pooped.
So I grabbed my bags, picked up Margot again, and headed back to the bathroom. I put Margot down on the floor, silently praying no toddlers had missed the toilet lately and started cleaning Portia up.
She kicked the poop onto the floor.
So now, I had to clean up Portia and the floor. I think at this point, my eye started twitching. I got the floor clean, and Margot started trying to play with the poop in the toilet.
In case you've never tried it, cleaning up a 3 year old and simultaneously herding a 10 month old away from a toilet in a 3x3 foot room is really difficult.
I finally got Margot away from the toilet and Portia clean, and realized that I had forgotten a clean set of panties. Then Margot grabbed my half-full Sonic cup and dumped Dr. Pepper all over the floor.
Yeah. Really.
I started trying to mop that up with paper towels, but to no avail. The floor and the 3 of us were covered in sticky soda.
I got Portia to wash her hands, and ushered them out as quickly as I could, walking right past the line of other kids and mothers waiting to use the restroom. Not at all embarrassing.
Portia then realized that we weren't going to play anymore and threw a huge tantrum. How someone can both stomp and drag their feet at the same time is beyond me, but she did. I was just hoping that her skirt wouldn't flip up, because she was going commando.
We got home, I tossed the girls in the bathtub, and shreded my library card.
Not really.
But we won't be venturing out of our house again for a little while.

Man, I love being a mom.

Margot just pooped all over the floor.
I tossed her in the bath, and started cleaning up, when I heard Portia marching around and singing a song.
It went like this:

"Margot pooped on the carpet, and I didn't touch it todaaaaay!"

Oh yeah. We be jammin.