300 Posts & Time to Say Good-Bye!

This is the 300th post on this blog..and the last. It has come to our attention that a scam website has shadowed our website address. The only way to prevent this is to delete this blog. I am busy transferring over all of our old post so we won't lose our memories. But I will no longer be posting to this site. I will be deleting it by the end of the month. CLICK HERE to see our new blog.

Matt is Officially a Civilian

Yesterday Matt officially became a civilian. Woohoo! We had a small family celebration last night. We had a delicious Chinese dinner--friend rice, egg rolls and potstickers--YUMMY!! Of course we also had chocolate cake with fudge icing for dessert. We also finally hooked up our Wii console that we got for Christmas. Yes, I know we are crazy and sad. But we had a blast playing with it tonight. Here are some pictures (and yes, all the Wii pictures are of everyone's back but I was not about to stand in front and take the chance of one of them taking out my precious Nikon)...

Locks of Love

Chloe's hair used to be so thin and fine that I couldn't even get a clip to stay in. But about six months ago it started growing in super thick. It has been quite a battle to keep it brushed and combed. Chloe has a very sensitive head which is not fun when it takes a good ten minutes to get all the tangles out each morning. She has been begging me for months to cut off her hair. I held her off until after the wedding and dance recital.

We had decided that since her hair was so long and gorgeous that we should donate it. So we decided to donate her hair to locks of love. Chloe loved the thought of her hair being made into a wig for another kid who cannot grow hair. It was also a great way for her to selflessly give up something that is near and dear to her. (Yes I know she has been whining about her hair for a while but she really does love her long locks).

Today was her haircut appointment with Aunt Lisa!!

Here are the before pictures. When I look at it now I still cannot believe how long her hair was.



Here is the actual cut. In order to donate your hair it must be put into a braid. This also makes it easy to cut off so much hair.




Here is Aunt Lisa holding up her hair. We cut off close to 11 inches. You need 10 inches to donate for a wig.



This is where the tears came. Chloe's tears (and yes, Mom's too). Here you can see her face as the realization of what she had just done hit her.



She just couldn't stop the tears after that. When she realized that all of her beautiful hair in the back of her head was gone she lost it. She wanted it back already.



It took both Lisa and I a few minutes to calm her down and remind her that she can grow it back. It was hard to see her go through the heartache of losing something so important to her. But it was also beautiful to see her smile and say, "At least another kid will have hair."

The haircut continued...



Chloe decided that since she had cut off all of her hair that it was Mom's turn to cut off her hair. So I had about six inches cut off so she wouldn't feel alone.