beaters

ahhh yes holiday cooking and licking beaters. and no gram there are no raw eggs involved.

haircut

we pulled the trigger and gave donovan a haircut. i was not looking forward to cutting his baby curls, but even i was beginning to feel like he was looking a bit shaggy. it just so happens that donovan's nanny angela pulled her strings to get us vip treatment. her daughter cuts hair and offered to come to our house to give his first haircut.

i was braced for donovan to not enjoy the experience, but i was not prepared for it to be traumatic for me. i just hated to see him upset over something that was based on pure vanity....and my own vanity at that. he sat in dan's lap until he got frantic enough to yell for "ma-ma". then he sat in my lap until he realized that he was also going to have to have his haircut in my lap in which case he began yelling for buck to rescue him. heartbreak.

betsy, donovan's hairdresser, was kind enough to bring him a special cape and a special comb. she was able to keep her cool and continue cutting despite donovan's breakdown. her confidence certainly helped me keep my cool.

now that it is over i cannot keep my eyes off my little boy and his precious new cut. he is going to have to get pretty shaggy for me to be able to put him through it again, but he looks precious :)

the murphysteins visit santa

dan and i are lazy when it comes to visit santa. we neglected to let donovan even get a peek at santa last year. our philosophy last year was when he asks to see santa we will dress him up and stand in line....until then we assume he does not want to go.

this year donovan has become interested in santa. he loves the phenomenon of which santa always seems to be on a fire truck, and he loves to say "ho ho ho" whenever he sees beards or santa hats. feeling in the christmas spirit dan and i trucked down to one of the local santa spots to snap a picture with donovan for a christmas card. we were the 5th people in line so it was awesome....until we got up to the price sheet that was placed outside of the room that you go into to see santa. needless to say we opted out. donovan forgot his money and in our goal of teaching financial responsibility we left. we headed over to the sports bar next door and spent our money on lunch. maybe next year?

we did get to see singing bears...for free....a big christmas tree....for free......and a deer made of sticks....for free :)