Taking Care of Business

Today was all about taking care of business. Getting Whitney's hair cut was the first thing on our agenda today. It's so cute how she loves to go to the salon to do this. She no longer needs me to sit back there with her. She now talks to the beautician (is that the right name?), and feels comfortable being back there on her own while I sit in the waiting area reading my book. I love it when she gets a great hair cut like this one. She came out of there beaming.


The 2nd thing we had to do was to go to the Elementary School open house to find her classroom and meet her new teacher. It was so fun. Her teacher had a little scavenger hunt for us to do. It had things like finding Whitney's mailbox, the drinking fountain, the bathroom, the calendar, the number 5, something yellow, etc. What a great way to help the kids feel like they know where things are so they'll be comfortable on the first day of school (which is the 30th). Her teacher is very cute and very nice. (I didn't take her picture though.) Whitney left there so excited for school!

Our 3rd task was to go to the Boy Scout store to get the stuff Landon needs now that he's 8 and goes to Cub Scouts. Good grief, all of this ended up costing $55.41! My only comfort is that he'll be wearing the shirt for 3 years so we'll definitely be getting our money out of it. I have to sew those patches on the shirt and I'm not feeling qualified to do that. Oh dear. His first pack meeting is tomorrow night so I've got to figure that out quickly.

Our last item of business was Landon's soccer game. This is the view from the parking lot! Gorgeous isn't it? I love having somewhere to go and a reason to be outside. (Otherwise I'm always hibernating in my climate-controlled house.) Fortunately the game wasn't until 7:00pm so it wasn't nearly as hot as the rest of the day had been (98 degrees).

Landon's team has kids from ages 8 to 10, so he and Benjamin (our next door neighbor) are two of the youngest on the team. It was interesting to watch his team because they actually function as a team (especially compared to Whitney's young team that still clusters around the ball and steals it from their own teammates). Landon's team stretches together, runs drills, and knows their positions on the field. It was a little upsetting to see how zoned out Landon was during the game. He stayed exactly where he was supposed to based on the position he was playing. That meant that he wasn't running around much, he sort of waited for the ball to come his way. It was making me crazy. I guess it's our fault for not signing him up for soccer the past few years, he hasn't played since he was 4 years old. I think we cheated him out of some quality zone-out years of on the field chaos, so now that he's on a team with many kids who know what they're doing the contrast is rather stark. Fortunately he doesn't seem aware of that.

It was a good, busy, productive day that also included the neighbor kids over to play for awhile, then a couple other friends from church over to play, my visiting teachers came, we returned library books, got shave ice, and had the power go out for about 30 minutes! No wonder I was ready for bed by 11:00pm.

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