Haircuts and single-parenting challenges

Two weeks down and one more to go before Jeff gets back from Nigeria. We've had our share of challenges, but also some good times. We've managed to join friends for dinner on two different occasions, spent some time with Grammy and cousin Kyan, been going to Gymnastics classes at the YMCA, visiting Lake Murray, walking the mutt...

We've been fighting a runny nose for about a week....not sure if it's a bug or teething, but watching "baby signing time" always helps. He loves that video and asks for it by signing and singing "baby". Just from the video he's picked up a few signs (baby, train, car, shoes, sleep, bath, please, thank you). His spoken vocabulary is growing like crazy too, which is tons of fun.

We also just had our first (real) hair cut! We went to a place that specializes in kids cuts so he got to sit in the fancy fire truck while he was getting snipped. As you can see, he was pretty excited about the entire experience.

Getting ready to go...the baby mullet is going away!

Almost finished

Bye bye mullet!

Modeling some new hand-me-downs from his buddy Holden

Of course I always try to capture the positive here, but we've had lots of this face lately too:

But then 5 minutes later he's screaming with joy

The other change since Jeff's departure is Quinn demanding to sleep in the big bed with me. It's okay as long as he doesn't try to suffocate me in my sleep. I have to admit that I kinda like waking up and seeing this sweet little face next to me.