Discovering the treasures in our backyard

I have lived in Douglasville for four years.  Right around the corner from us is the Sweetwater Creek state park.  In all of the time I lived here yesterday was the second time I have visited the park.  It was a lot of fun.

Evan is a born hiker.  He loved every minute of it.  He was six steps ahead of us and showing us the way.

 

 

Obviously it wasn't much of a hike since we could take the stroller.

At the end of one of the trails there are the ruins of a civil was era textile mill.  I didn't think that I would get too excited about seeing this but once we got down there it was really, really cool. 

 

 

 

Very beautiful

What have I done?

Let my first words be "I hate it!" (see below)

Until now my world did not include hair clippers or boy's hair cuts.  Poor Evan is taking the brunt of my being introduced to these two things.  Ever since Evan was born he has had a tuft of red hair that pointed down his forehead, until now.  I would have cried had I not been trying to not freak Evan out about loosing his hair.

Now there are many reasons Evan's hair ended up like this.  Evan inherited some amazing hair issues from his father, a cowlick that doesn't quit, the front lays perfectly flat to his head and everything else stands on end until it is well over two inches long.   There is no styling this hair.  It does what it wants.  You can see what James has resorted to to deal with these issues.  Yep, he shaves his head.  He keeps telling me to just give in and do the same to Evan.  I have insisted that my little boy is going to have hair.  Especially Evan's beautiful copper colored hair.

Well I decided that I would get Evan's hair cut short for the summer because he gets so hot.  I paid for several haircuts that always turned out a little goofy.  I also felt that there really wasn't much to taking the clippers to a boys head and that if I did some experimenting I could figure it out and save some money.

As this hair cut progressed Evan got more tired and more frustrated with the hair clippings falling in his face and itching his neck.  I all I could thing to do was get it to some point that it would look fairly decent.  Well this is where it ended up.  Okay it is going to take A LOT of practice.   I am not giving up yet though.  As soon as it starts cooling down we will be growing his hair out and starting over.

Summer Fun

We have really enjoyed eating produce from our garden.  All plants did survive Evan's "helping".  I am so blessed to have children who LOVE vegetables.  As you can see they especially love tomatoes and will eat them like apples right off the vine.

We have also enjoyed picking and eating LOTS of blueberries.  We look forward to planting our own blue berry bushes this fall.  Evan and Emma would eat blueberries all day long if I would let them.  You can only imagine what that does to their diapers.

 

We broke out the kiddie pool the other day and it was a grand hit. 

Evan is so excited that Emma is up and walking now.  She is so much more fun.  They get along great and love to make each other laugh.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed pictures of our summer.