A Whole Lotta Nuttin

We've enjoyed some beautiful fall weather here, which is about to come abruptly to an end. Last week the boys and I walked to one of the few places within walking distance ~ Supercuts ~ to, obviously, cut their hair. I was reading a sign aloud that talked about free hair cuts with color and jokingly asked them if they'd like to color their hair. Of course they jumped at the chance, and as I looked at the stylist for help, she pointed to a box of $2 samples of very temporary colored hair glue. Tyler chose red (it's hard to see ~ look closely!):

And Gavin chose blue:

It lasted for two days until I washed it out and their friends at school were very impressed with their cool 'do's.

On Friday Shawn accompanied me to Tyler's class to volunteer. Tyler was SO excited that he was coming! We ended up only staying for two hours because they watched Planet Earth that day. So we set off to Stapleton to have lunch , browse in some stores and walk around together ~ enjoying a day date for the first time in quite awhile. I love having the chance to spend time with him and have uninterrupted conversations... it's good to reconnect.

On Saturday we spent all morning cleaning the house, which isn't exciting in and of itself. But the funny thing was, it was our last day for Good Behavior points. And it was a close race... so the boys were scrambling to find ways to earn more points. Tyler made his bed all by himself and then declared he loved cleaning the house (? is this my child?). Gavin decided he wanted to learn how to clean the bathroom and had fun squirting the Windex and bathroom cleaner everywhere. In the end, Gavin won and gets to pick the movie tonight. He's already decided on pizza for dinner.

We did sneak out after the house was clean and I had a quick work out to do some thrift store shopping. Shawn found a putting green for $5 and I found some sweaters for Tyler. The boys picked out house slippers for $1 and saw lots of things to add to their Christmas list. Keep in mind, they have already perused several toy catalogs that made their way to our mailbox and have circled about 100 things each that they would like. Including laptops, Power Wheels and video games. Hey, if you're gonna dream, dream big!

Today we're enjoying being lazy... I hope to catch up on some reading, finish a scarf I've been knitting and hopefully walk over to the part as this is probably going to be our last nice day for awhile before it gets cold. We need to take advantage of it!