Black and Whites in Action!!

Just a shot of the "tuxedo" (just 'cause it's black and white, a tuxedo bow is something totally different..I know nobody cares..sorry!!) bow in her hair and "on the move" as we went to the BX after that!!

Babies Dos and A Black and White

The second picture is pretty bright because I couldn't figure out how to turn off the flash but it was just to show you the side of the mini baby clip with double loops on top. And I finally figured out how to do a tails down bow with the black and white. I thought they turned out okay, how about you!! Those baby clips are for you Brianna!! ;)

My Little Mister's OWWEE!!!

Well I guess alot of people have scars from their childhood that later on are something to "brag" about (at least if you're a dude!!) and something to have a story to tell about but when you're still a child it's a sad site to see for a mom....but he sure doesn't look like he's in pain, doesn't it??Lesson Learned: Big brother's tooth connects with little brother's head means stitches and lots of crying!!

Curled Under Headband Etc.

Here's the end of that particular do with the ends curled under...maybe not much different than the before picture but I could tell the difference in person!! ;)

More DOs for YOUs!!

Well I tried to make these separate posts...but the computer wouldn't let me backtrack so there's one more picture of this last pink do with the bottom curled under!!

Say What??

This was an email from my mom, but I thought it too good not to share and I don't know everybody's email address that I would think would like it....so this is the best way to get the info out so to say!! I know my neighbor Tammy sure will get a kick out of it!! I know it's single-spaced too but that's how it copied over so see if you can train your eyes to read it so close together!!

Through the eyes of a child: The Children's Bible in a Nutshell
In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but God, darkness, and some gas. The Bible says, 'The Lord thy God is one, but I think He must be a lot older than that.
Anyway, God said, 'Give me a light!' and someone did. Then God made the world.
He split the Adam and made Eve. Adam and Eve were naked, but they weren't embarrassed because mirrors hadn't been invented yet.
Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating one bad apple, so they were driven from the Garden of Eden. Not sure what they were driven in though, because they didn't have cars.
Adam and Eve had a son, Cain, who hated his brother as long as he was Abel.
Pretty soon all of the early people died off, except for Methuselah, who lived to be like a million or something.
One of the next important people was Noah, who was a good guy, but one of his kids was kind of a Ham. Noah built a large boat and put his family and some animals on it. He asked some other people to join him, but they said they would have to take a rain check.
After Noah came Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob was more famous than his brother, Esau, because Esau sold Jacob his birthmark in exchange for some pot roast. Jacob had a son named Joseph who wore a really loud sports coat.
Another important Bible guy is Moses, whose real name was Charlton Heston. Moses led the Israel Lights out of Egypt and away from the evil Pharaoh after God sent ten plagues on Pharaoh's people. These plagues included frogs, mice, lice, bowels, and no cable.
God fed the Israel Lights every day with manicotti. Then he gave them His Top Ten Commandments. These include: don't lie, cheat, smoke, dance, or covet your neighbor's stuff.
Oh, yeah, I just thought of one more: Humor thy father and thy mother.
One of Moses' best helpers was Joshua who was the first Bible guy to use spies. Joshua fought the battle of Geritol and the fence fell over on the town.
After Joshua came David. He got to be king by killing a giant with a slingshot. He had a son named Solomon who had about 300 wives and 500 porcupines. My teacher says he was wise, but that doesn't sound very wise to me.
After Solomon there were a bunch of major league prophets. One of these was Jonah, who was swallowed by a big whale and then barfed up on the shore. There were also some minor league prophets, but I guess we don't have to worry about them. After the Old Testament came the New Testament. Jesus is the star of The New. He was born in Bethlehem in a barn.
(I wish I had been born in a barn too, because my mom is always saying to me, 'Close the door! Were you born in a barn?' It would be nice to say, 'As a matter of fact, I was.') During His life, Jesus had many arguments with sinners like the Pharisees and the Democrats.
Jesus also had twelve opossums. The worst one was Judas Asparagus. Judas was so evil that they named a terrible vegetable after him.
Jesus was a great man. He healed many leopards and even preached to some Germans on the Mount.
But the Democrats and all those guys put Jesus on trial before Pontius the Pilot. Pilot didn't stick up for Jesus. He just washed his hands instead.
Anyways, Jesus died for our sins, then came back to life again. He went up to Heaven but will be back at the end of the Aluminum. His return is foretold in the book of Revolution.

So Much to See!!

Well just like the last time I did a bucket load of updates...you'll have to go back through older posts like twice to get to the first of what I updated, if you care to see it all!! Go back to where you see a picture of a lady sitting in a chair (you'll see it when you get there!!) Well happy reading and looking!! ;)

Bows and More Bows

Finally, we've gotten to the end of my updates and now I can show what bows I keep telling everyone about (sorry I've been doing that..it's just a new hobby and I'm excited about it) The first one is called Korker bows (or twirly/twisty bows) or pretty much whatever you want to call them!! And then the second is all the rest of the ones I've made with various colors and clips/ponytail holders and stuff!! There's a better picture of the flower bow on the headband. So which is your favorite?? Leave me a comment so I know which type to make more of...and I can make any of them as a ponytail or using a regular barrette or a small clippie. I really want to know what other people like so I can make what people might buy if I ever tried to sell them?? For interest sake, would you buy any of these!!?? I just truly want to know if they were what anybody would look for if they were to buy something for their daughter's hair!! Thanks for the input and thanks for trudging through all the videos and pictures!! ;)

The Four Geisha Twist

This one turned out really well I think and I actually came up with most of this one on my own....it's french braided up top into the four braided buns....And then just topped off with some scrap ribbon....boys for all the talking I've done about me making bows, none of these pictures minus the one headband one shows her wearing any of them!! Mistake on my part!!

With Flowers in Her Hair....

Well this is one of the bows I've made recently, and this one is just clipped on a headband, but the bows are interchangeable for the headband and you can just choose which bow to put on your headband each day depending on the color of your girl's outfit!! I just noticed you can't see it in the picture but this bow is actually called a flower bow because it's folded up to the middle to look like a flower....oh yeah but I think I have a better picture later of it!! Okay so just wait for that one!!

You Put WHAT in your Hair??

I could certainly imagine the stares and funny faces that Destinee's classmates would give her if when asked how she got her hair so nice and curly (since it's like a pancake otherwise) and she proudly told them: "Egg Whites, isn't it pretty?" Well I told a few people about this and some had said that they had already heard about it but never wanted to try it....but you know me..I'm just that adventurous!! Anyway, I bought a carton of those Egg Beaters and poured away and what do you know it worked BEAUTIFULLY!! So this was SO simple and very nice for a fancy do when nothing else will work on her hair!! Then it's just a simple Corkscrew Twist for the back!! She had just fallen right before I took this picture so she certainly doesn't look too happy to have her picture taken, but oh well, the price of beauty, right!!??

Criss-Cross'll make you Jump Jump!!

Sorry about the bad band joke there....anyway this was a fun style to figure out that I could do on shorter hair...and then I decided to jazz it up with the ribbons at the end to match her shirt!!

Knotty Times

So does every good red-blooded American woman remember the Topsy-Tail from when they were young...I know I sure do and LOVED it...you can still find them a few places on E-bay but the company that did make them stopped making them. And so this was done with just a rat tail comb for in the middle and then you flip it under yourself!! Then with the leftover hair I just flipped it into an upside topsy tail ponytail (flip the hair up through the ponytail instead of down.)

Hairballs and Accessories

So now what maybe some of you read through all that mumbo-jumbo for, since I've been talking about it forever and have never shown the "goods".......these are all hairdos that I saw on these talented ladies' sites that are on my blog that seem to dedicate ALOT of their time to doing their beautiful daughters' hair...so yes I copied them but I think I did a decent job on some of them because Destinee's hair is QUITE a bit shorter than any of these girls, so I was adapting it for the shorties in our family!! ;) Hope you like!!

Cheese Balls for the CheeseHeads

Okay, does anybody remember Planters Cheese Balls? Oh my goodness what a guilty pleasure those were to me as a kid, so imagine our surprise when we happen across some at the Costco in Seoul...but it's a keg size (just used as a comparison, not from experience!!) bucket of them and they are $10. So Chris being the good, healthy father that he is keeps telling us No, but I want my kids to taste some of the goodness that is a Cheese Ball. So we found these at the Ball Museum right as you exit for $1 (1000 won), what a great place!! Cool ball thingys and CHEESE BALLS to boot!! It's heaven in a bag!!

Magnetic Kinetic

THEN..... I know you're probably bored to death about now but hang on we're almost done, this was a whole wall with magnetic little pieces that you could build your own track on the wall and see where it went!! And the last picture is a place where you could put all the wooden pieces (imagine those big wooden blocks you used to build with) and make once again your own masterpiece of motion!! So overall a very cool place to visit!! Definitely pricey, but I think worth it for all the fun and learning that the kids receive there!!

Steps With No Feet!!

Here is one of the DIY with steps this time...I didn't want to post it because of my silly dialog in the back...it didn't get the point across but I was just trying to especially make this video for my mom because she's been a teacher all her life and so she's always teaching the kids stuff about cause and effect..."If I put the ball in the hole, where does it go??" And so I was just saying that Kyle was learning to watch where the ball went!! So please disregard my jibber-jabber!!

The Mountainous Terrain

Then there was this entire other room with 20 or so of these "DIY" wooden tracks and this one was one of our favorites...but there were so many different tracks and angles that the balls took...from winding around so gracefully to steps that they could travel down.

Music in Motion

Lots of videos I know, but we all know how I feel about videos as opposed to just pictures...SO much better!! Anyway, this one was one of my favorites because of course it involved music, and though some of the sounds are kinda soft, you can definitely hear the ball running over the cow bells, and then the xylophone....Such creativity I tell you!!

The Tilty Table

Well with all the precision of a moving foozeball table Destinee and Chris try and get the ball through the little steeple at the end, but not without first hitting the bell in between!! Such skills!! ;)

Keep Those Balls Coming!!

Well I'm off to playgroup now but wanted to do a little more updating this morning, but definitely more BALLS to come soon...the rolling kind and the hair kind!! Stay tuned!! ;)

SORRY!!

See I told you it's a good thing I'm not an inventor or in this case a computer whiz because if I was then I would have been able to figure out how to turn the video right side up so you didn't have to break your neck looking at it!! Good thing for stupidity, huh!!

The Bouncing Balls!!

Okay you've got to watch this carefully but if you do you can see the marble rolling from the top and then bouncing on the little metal platform right below and then bounce into the cup thing there...the precision and trial and error it took to time and place the platform in the EXACT spot that would make the marble go where you wanted it to go would be crazy!! I know I would've literally gone insane trying to get it just right!! Good thing I'm just a mom, not an inventor...nothing stressful about being a mom, whooh good thing, huh?? ;)

Masterpieces of Motion

Okay...for you ladies that read this here in the lovely land of the Morning Calm, you have GOT to see this place...for those of you who don't, well just enjoy the ingenuity of the Koreans to make a place like this and the creativity of the people who took the MASSIVE amounts of time to create these masterpieces of motion!! Didn't that last part sound poetic...aahhh I even surprise myself sometimes!! ;)

Witches and Warlocks in Training!!

Just one of those silly days when the kids are bored to tears and had to find something to do before they dissengrated from not being entertained 24/7...ooh the humanity, right!!

A little late for the 4th...but still yummy!!

Well this was my cute recipe that was going to be for a 4th of July BBQ, but I don't know what happened that they just didn't "materialize" and so I finally made them probably a month ago actually, so much closer to the 4th than now...I'm just getting around to posting the picture now!! Such a slacker I know!! Anyway, do they look like little chunks of corn on the cob with a nice buttery slab on top?? I hope so...they were fun to make when I finally figured out how thick or thin the icing needed to be to keep the uhhh..."kernels" on there!!

It Wasn't My Fault!!

Okay Okay...so I get it all set up to start uploading the booty-ton of stuff I have and some unknown force pulls me away from the computer and into doing something else, i.e. reading a book.....So like I said it wasn't my fault, it was that one Stephenie Meyer...so blame her!! My fellow Twilight readers will understand the gravitational pull of her book that it just won't let you LEAVE!! But somehow her pull is much stronger at night when the kids are in bed and I can curl up on the couch with a nice fuzzy blanket and a big bowl of popcorn ALL BY MYSELF!! Does any other mother know why that time would have more effect on me than during the day in between laundry,spit-up,poopy diapers, and flying food!! I could sit down then just as easily and read a chapter of a book, right!!?? Uhhh...sure!! ;)

Well Here Goes Nothing!!

Don't you always hear that phrase when you know somebody's about to fall off a roof while trying to fly with a towel around their back..."Here Goes Nothing Daddy, are you sure this red towel will make me fly like Superman?" or maybe even more likely bomb the ever living snikes out of a test that they know they didn't study for..."Well here goes nothing...pssst hey Bubba whatcha put for number 2?" Anyway well in this case it's...here goes ALOT of updates in one sitting...and subsequently probably your eyes as well if you're interested enough to read them all from staring at the computer screen so long...but as my previous towel-bearing predecessors, and all night video gamers stated: "Here Goes Nothing..."

Tent City in S. Korea

Doesn't everybody remember their parents helping them build a "fort" or "tent" in between the dining room chairs...despite their usual begging and pleadings to play with them or help them do something that knowingly will trash the living room...well I actually on this day which is the rarest of occasions really actually got into helping them do it (probably because Kyle was napping and so I didn't have to handle one more!!) and so I set up a lamp in there so they could pretend it was like a real campout and they had their "flashlights" and then I brought them some of their play kitchen utensils so they could "cook" me breakfast over the campfire!! Anyway, I think they really enjoyed it,especially because I didn't put them aside for once and tell them.."No I'm busy I can't play with this or help with this..."so there is something to be said about parental play even if it does knowingly trash all your hard work of cleaning just so you can go on a living room campout with your kids!! ;)

Well...he's off!!

Well as promised for like the 4 people that ever even look at my blog...Chris is now gone so now I don't have anybody to talk to so what better to do than blog some...now all I have to do is find the connection thing for the camera!! ;)