Connected with Wolfgang

We were riding home from school yesterday when Wolfie was telling me about a book they read at school that day. It was "Tales for the Perfect Child" by Florence Parry Heidi. In it, Harriet whines to get her way. Apparently, she whines a lot. And it works all the time.
Wolfie suddenly exclaims "Hey, I can make a text to self connection!"
I'm thinking 'huh, where the heck do you get this stuff?!' but say "Really? What's the connection?"
"Well, Harriet whines and whines to get her way and I know someone else just like that!"
Feeling a little apprehensive and rather knowing the answer, I ask "and who would that be?"
"My little sister of course!"
To which Princess replies "HEY! I do nooooot!"
Now I was torn. Do I say good job on making the connection or don't treat your sister that way?? I went with Good job.

Fun at the Lake

Question: When does Lake Michigan look more like the Atlantic Ocean?
Answer: On Weds, 9/16! I have never seen such large waves so close to shore.
We went to a beach in Illinois with some friends. The kids had a blast and were completely soaked to the skin. But, really, they had such big smiles I couldn't be angry about the yucky laundry that would be required at home and the sandbox amount of sand that got transported home with us in the van. I think most of it had been in the Princess' underwear and in Wolfgang's swimsuit! Only one problem, he didn't take off his regular shorts before he got in the water. Really, what is going through his head sometimes? I think it's better I don't know.
Here's some pictures of the fun:

Why Silence is Not Always Golden-Part Two

And then, I walked into the dining room and this is what I saw:

It appears the Princess has set up her own beauty parlor with a special focus on hair cutting.

Poor Barbie, I guess she wanted a new 'do for school:

Oh Pretty Little Pony, I remember your long flowing locks that have been tendered by the amateur hair stylist:

And then, I saw the real evidence....

A pile of blonde, brown and multi-colored hair. Lots of blonde, brown and multi-colored hair. It seems the little stylist decided everyone needed cuts.

It's a good thing school started. Hopefully she won't be opening up shop there and offering her services to classmates. Holy mackerel!

Why Silence is Not Always Golden

When your daughter is nicely, quietly playing in the other room allowing you to get all your work on the computer done, this is why you need to check on her:

The hair is approximately 1/4 inch long at the biggest of the small lengths. At least she only hacked off half of her bangs and none of the back or sides of her hair. When she looked in the mirror she declared "I should have cut more to make it even!" Heaven help us.

By the way, did I tell you that this happened the night before the first day of school and the night before we got our pictures taken for the new church directory? Lots of pics to preserve this 'precious' memory.

First Day of School

Yeah, first day of school. We were mostly excited, a wee bit nervous, and very happy at my house. I'll let you figure out from the pictures which one was nervous. ;)

The kids went happily off to school and had a great day, although Wolfgang requested a bigger sandwich for lunch tomorrow.

I was glad to pick them up, hard to believe it, but I missed them today. Now off to get church family pictures tonight for the new directory.