Weekend Update (and Phone Photo Dump)

I gave the boys haircuts on Friday night, which is no big deal, except that Xander got his FIRST haircut.  So now instead of looking like this (can you say mullet?):

He looks like this:

Muchos Betteros!

Of course, we did have to give him a lollipop because he was scared of the clippers.  This lollipop was his first taste of sugar ever!  I said I wouldn't give him any sweets until his first birthday cake and hopefully with the exception of the 5 licks he took of this lollipop, I will be able to keep it up.  It's something we did with John-Paul and he turned out to be a great eater.  Then the next 3 kids, I was really lenient on the sweets (Oh, you're 8 months old...here's a chocolate chip cookie to gnaw on while I am up to my ears in poopy diapers) and they turned out to be pickier eaters.  SO with Xander we're trying to be strict again and hope he turns out to be a great eater (he already eats everything, but the real test is the terrible two's):

On Saturday morning, we took the kids to a wading pool.  Only there was one slight problem, there was no wading...the pool hadn't been filled up yet, so it was just fountains.  Xander snubbed the whole thing:

But the others made lemonade:

On the way home, we stopped for ice cream and met up with Alexander's godFather (he's a priest, get it?):

Then we came home for naps, went to Mass, and had my parents over for a cookout.

On Sunday morning, I awoke to Phil cooking a feast of waffles (with honey cinnamon butter) and bacon and strawberries for breakfast, which turned into cute faces:

But then Phil had school work to get done, and the baby needed a morning nap, so I took the four kids to the beach to play with their cousins:

After quick showers, we headed to a roller-skating birthday party for one of Andrew's classmates:

Kissing cousins.

And now the fattest and happiest and non-mulletiest baby ever is sleeping again, Phil and the kids are having "rest time" and I am about to start working from home.  As soon as I hit publish :)