Saved my bacon

So my Mary Alice saved my bacon big time; she sent me a 30 day Lego challenge. I showed Liam who promptly responded, "awwwww yeaaaaaah. Challenge accepted!"

Today's suggestion was to build a roller coaster:

He explained every part to me and my conclusion was, "so what do you call it? The Barfmobile?" Lots of spinny parts and some upside down parts and Dada turning green and *hurk*!

Maybe this is a tasteless way to plug, but did you know that this year is Cedar Point's 150th birthday? If you haven't been for awhile, might be a great year to check it out. Provided we're all allowed to be out in public again this summer, naturally...

Anyway, I don't know that I'll blog every single day, but I'll try to showcase his best work. I know there are pirate ships, tree houses, rockets, and more to come! What are you doing with Legos, Playdoh, art paper, toilet paper rolls, recipes?

My Jen also shared that Mo Willems of Gerald and Piggie and the Pigeon fame is posting YouTube videos called "Lunch Doodles" so wander over thataway and check him out. He reminds me of a Bob Ross crossed with Mr. Rogers. Lots of fun! Get creative and share your work!

All the hairy details

It's funny. I read in one of my multitudes of breast cancer books that I should box up all my hair care products so they're out of my way and I don't have to keep seeing them. I did my best, but those of you with plenty of hair know how hair clips and hair elastics and hair accessories seem to migrate all through the house, the car, into every handbag, etc. I thought I did pretty well gathering Stuff up and sticking it all in a box:

Then I remembered I also had a drawer in the kids' bathroom:

If the entire purpose of boxing up The Hair Stuff was to free space, the experts have seriously underestimated the generosity of my friends and family. This is not everything I received in the mail or in person, but it is the vast majority of it. The bandannas in the bottom left are representatives of a much larger stack of them which I've used throughout my life and especially at camp. To any of you who thoughtfully picked out fabrics, styles, and colors for my naked bean, I thank you. Thanks for spiffing up my wardrobe!

And to those of you who see me when I'm not wearing anything on my head, you now are absolutely sure that it is not because I am lacking appropriate headgear. Sometimes it is nice to just feel the wind in my hair eyebrows eyelashes ears. 

No, I really don't like that. I tend to pull all these suckers down so the wind doesn't do that...

There are many more tiny hairs on my head than there were a few weeks ago. Dada is teasing me about it coming in white and curly, but they look mighty straight-and-stick-outy to me. My Mary Alice calls it dandelion hair. Time will tell. Eyebrows also seem to be attempting a comeback and I have curled my eyelashes without fear of losing them entirely twice in the last week. This is what progress looks like!