Crazy Hair Day!

This week has been Red Ribbon Week at the elementary.  And today was crazy hair day.  Last year we went pretty big - although I failed to blog about it - so here are a couple pictures from that:

And apparently, that set a precedent for how this was supposed to go down from now on.  Brielle said to me this morning, "I really like having a mom who does such fun, crazy stuff for crazy hair day."  which was the best compliment ever, especially when I feel - many times - like I'm failing miserably at these fun things. So I guess I'll stick to it, seems to be working.

So here are pictures from this morning.  The lighting was TERRIBLE, it was still kind of dark outside, so I just snapped some pictures by the front door before they left.

First of all, I need to share all these pictures of Claire.  For some reason the flash was really bothering her, so she was having a hard time keeping her eyes open.

She was getting frustrated that she kept closing her eyes when the flash went off, so she said, "Here, I'll hold my eyes open!"  It still didn't work.

So I told her just to turn sideways.

Then she felt like she was ready to try again.  It didn't work. 

So we moved her to the couch in the living room, to see if a little change in scenery would help her keep her eyes open.

I told her to just tip her head down.

Then she wanted to try again.

And we finally got one with her eyes still open...but she tipped her head back laughing so you can't see the hair.  Oh well...you can't always win. :)

Then Brielle came in to get hers done.  We used a little plastic ball between the bottom elastic and the top one (around the frog).  However, when I was at the school today to volunteer, I peeked in Brielle's classroom and the ball wasn't in her hair anymore.  I don't know if it fell out or she got embarrassed or what.  I'll have to ask her when she gets home today.

Claire saw that Brielle was able to keep her eyes open on the first two tries, so she wanted to try again...and she finally was successful!

I asked them to pose together, and they started trying to do bunny ears and stuff and bugging each other, so this is the only one I got.

Back views.

And that is that!

Tomorrow is Halloween...we are excited to keep the craziness going!