Haircut

It took Cman a long time to get hair.  He was bald forever.  He didn't start getting peach fuzz until he was a year old.  When he did finally get some hair, it was and has always been blonde, soft, and really fine.  I love giving his noggin a good rub.  We usually let it grow out pretty long to the point where it gets curly.  Some would even say the boy can grow a nice mullet!  Whenever there's too much "party in the back", since I'm handy with a pair of scissors, I give it a trim job.  All until tonight.  

After eating dinner at Pei-Wei, I walked by the Sports Clips window where I got my hair cut just the other day and noticed they weren't busy.  I had given them fair warning when I was in there that I was bringing my 3 year-old in for his first haircut in a barber shop.  They took Campbell right in.  Once we got him settled into the barber chair on the cushion, we put the "magical" black cape on, and the cutting commenced.  

He really did quite well.  We managed to keep him talking all about our recent vacation.  Dannie, the stylist that cut his hair, was really patient.  After she finished, it was amazing to see how much older our little boy looked.  He is growing up so fast and was so excited about his first official haircut.  He even got a blue sucker out of the deal and of course a proud mamma.

Goodbye to the ROM

We weren't in Toronto long enough to really become emotionally attached to the city, but we did become attached to the Royal Ontario Museum.  Our first trip to the ROM was literally 2 days after we arrived in Toronto (documented previously).  We wanted to take the kids some place cool, but we were also looking for someplace with air conditioning because it was stifling hot in the city, and our rent house that we were too busy to fly up and see prior to moving of course had no AC (documented previously too).

The ROM turned out to be amazing, not just the dinosaur exhibit, but the entire museum.  We had so many great times there. The ROM was the perfect place for us, not only when it was 95 outside with no AC, but also when it was 5 outside with our heater cranked up.  Campbell loved the ROM so much I really can't put it into words, and I'm not sure I'll ever fully appreciate it.  He would literally run through the dinosaur exhibit over and over with a huge ear-to-ear smile on his face, stopping only to take a break on "his" grey leather couch.  He was probably the only 2 year old that knew exactly who succhomimus and prestosucchus were.  He was obsessed and still is obsessed with the free kids ROM dinosaur comic book that you could pick up at the beginning of the exhibit.  There were so many other things Campbell grew to love in the ROM: the turkey, the big gigantic Moose, the Algonquin park scene with the baby deer and the fox that he thought looked just like Maggie, playing in the kids zone, and Christmas Dino.  As for Mackadoodle, we literally watched her grow
inside the ROM.  The first time we took her, I think she slept the whole time in our Phil and Teds, but on our last trip, she was running close behind Cman pointing at the baby brown bear and jumping up onto the bench to look at the fish in the aquarium with Campbell.  We will miss the ROM and will hopefully be able to take them back one day when they are older.

Jays vs. Rangers

This post is really 3 separate stories that intersect.  Growing up in Dallas, Katherine and I have lived and died with the Texas Rangers.  We've cheered them on in the playoffs.  I saw Nolan Ryan throw his 5000th strikeout and Kenny Rogers throwing a perfect game watching on T.V.  I remember going to the division series against the Yankees in '99 with amazing seats behind the Yankees dugout listening to some drunk guy yell various obscenities at all the Yankees when they came out of the dugout.  I also remember losing my mind in '90 when they missed the postseason after having a 13 game lead going into the last month or when they were literally one strike away from winning the World Series and blew it in 2011.

As anyone who has read these posts knows, we've moved around quite a bit while I have been in school and training.  One of Katherine's friends from high school, Scott Cunningham, has visited us in each locale.  Scott also happens to be one the most die-hard, faithful Rangers fans I've ever met.  So when Scott emailed Katherine to say he would be in Toronto to see the Blue Jays and Rangers series the weekend of June 7th, it was a no-brainer that we meet up.

To make things even sweeter, Campbell and Mackenzie had not yet been to a baseball game, and we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to take them.  Better yet, Saturday games at the Rogers Centre are kids' days where any kid can run the bases after the game.  We were so excited-first baseball game and Cman and Mack could run the bases-too perfect.  We decided to let the kids take a nap and get to the game a little late so we would be sure to make it through the whole game.  We casually rolled in at the bottom of the 4th and met up with Scott at our seats.  We were having a great time.  Campbell got used to the cheering, of which there was a lot because it was a really good game.  The Rangers were down most of the game but came back late to force extra innings.  By the bottom of the 14th inning, we admitted defeat and packed it in.  The Jays ulimately won the game in the bottom of the 18th-just our luck.  It was the longest game in team history on a day that we just wanted to take our two toddlers to run the bases for a photo-op!  We still had a great time seeing Scott and watching some baseball.  Hopefully we will be able to entice Scott with a minor league Cardinals game in Springfield.

All set for the big game.

 That's Scott with the Rangers jersey, good stuff!  He made fast friends with all the Canadians!

Juice break, anyone?

Mackie post hot dog.