Lara is here!

So I have my very first guest blogger! Aunty Lara came to visit this week and I decided to let her blog about the goings on this week since she thinks my kids are just as cute as I do and well its just plain exciting to have a guest blogger. Here she is...

Wow, what faith! To give someone, who's never blogged before, a post of their very own.

I love to cut hair and for those of you who know my husband you'll know that that haircut is not really an interesting one to do. So, the other day we played "Hairdressers" - Gummy needed a trim and Zackie needed an overhaul, poor kid couldn't even see out from under there.

I gave Gummy a buzz cut in Summer 08 (in Nauvoo) and I'd forgotten that he's sensitive to the itchy state you end up in when the hair falls onto your neck and shoulders. It wasn't long before he'd gotten hair on his tongue and it was all over. Trying to convince him to shower to relieve his suffering was just as hard.

Zackie though, sat patiently on the stool and each time I cut some hair off he would smile and say "Wooooohh" and want to hold it. I ended up placing each clump on the stool for him to pick up and put in the bin. His attention span was twice as long as we'd expected but even then going from "Surfer Boy" to "Future Missionary" was going to take a while. I also decided to get some new 'kid-friendly' clippers, the $10 Walmart ones we'd left here were too pinchy and loud, hence me cutting Zackie's hair with scissors. ~Here's a shameless plug for 'Norelco' clippers from Philips - the box says "designed for kids, made for moms" and they're awesome.

For Zackie's next session we sat him in front of Nemo and I used the clippers to tidy up his hacked up hair. He wanted to use the scissors to cut his own hair so rather than let him poke his eye out or cut his ear off, we gave him a soft toy to give a haircut to, he did a very careful job and I was able to finish his hair. I was almost done and he wanted to hold the clippers, so I let him, looked away for a second (silly Aunty Lara) and when I looked back he'd cut a 2 inch strip off the side of his head. Normally I'd cut the rest to match but it was too short and the poor kid would have looked like a P.O.W!

The boys can be tricky to understand over the phone or on Skype and I've realised why this week. When you have an American father and an Aussie mother you get confused about when to use what word or how to pronounce them. Some that have made me smile this week are: Gummy's word "Grubbish" - Garbage (S) and Rubbish (J), Gummy also says computer like he's french "Com-pew-teere", Zac's "Grasses" (Glasses) and "Byderr" (Spider) used when referencing dust bunnies, clumps of knotted hair or thread - not actual spiders.

Finally one last giggle - Dad arrived today, having travelled 24 hours from his house to here he was trying to explain to Gummy that he was tired. Gummy's response - "No, you're not tired. The sun's up!"

Oh, and silly me didn't bring my cord to connect my camera to the computer so we can't give you all the great photos that go along with all of these anecdotes, you'll have to check back later...later like May...when I'm home again and I've sent the photos back. It's a real shame because I've let Gummy use my camera (Don't worry D, under strict supervision with the cord tightly around his little wrist) and he's taken some great shots. All the way to the park the other day he photographed every car that went past us.