Hair today...gone tomorrow!

I have always hated cutting Memphis' hair because I LOVE IT so much.  Even when it's long it's the beautiful red color and the curls that just make it all Memphis.  Yes, it gets too long and we have cut it a couple of times but just to get it off his ears and out of his eyes.  I would also get so many comments from strangers on how beautiful his hair is.  Danny kept threatening to shave it all off but I kept saying no and I would cut it.  Until last week that is...

I went to the dentist to get a tooth fixed and let's just say it was a catastrophe and I had complications that the dentist had never seen before so he basically told me I was to be bedridden on painkillers for 3 days because the pain would be unbearable if I didn't.  I think Danny saw this opportunity of the fact that I could not even lift my head off the pillow and he SHAVED OFF ALL OF MEMPHIS' HAIR!!!  I was so mad and so upset.  Well, no going back now.  It's all gone:(  Danny is so lucky that it doesn't look as bad as I thought it would;)  We should have done this over the summer because now the weather is freezing but oh well.  He looks so much older and all the comments we get now are that he definitely looks like a Royer and just like his Daddy who also shaved off all his long hair too.

So here he is, the new Memphis.  What do you think?  If you can't remember what he used to look like check out the previous Halloween post below.

And of course what's a post without some pictures of cute Kayzee Lynn.  She needs her hair trimmed too!

Just an update on my fixed tooth.  Well the pain got better and then even worse.  The painkillers stopped working.  The dentist had to go down into the gum line too far to fix the tooth and basically he caused it to need a root canal so he did an emergency one after I couldn't handle the pain anymore and he couldn't even finish it.  I have a root system he has never seen before so I get to pay a specialist a ton of money to finish it:(  Oh well, eventually this will all be fixed and finished and I can live pain free.  Not being able to eat very much the past week has helped me lose a lot of weight though.  I am down another 5 pounds so my total weight loss for the year is now 25 pounds!!!  GO ME:)  

Shake shake shake...I got a party!

We had a great Halloween this year.  Memphis was finally old enough to understand what was going on and he did really well (the above title comes from him, I will explain below) and I had fun dressing up my Kayzee girl.

 My mom actually bought this costume a year ago and we guessed on the size for this year.  It fit perfectly!

The day started with my school's Halloween parade.  Since I don't have my own class I just sat and watched with my team of specialty teachers.  It is fun to see all the fun costumes.  Over 1,000 students paraded through our school so it took awhile.  The first grade class I had after the parade kept asking what I was for Halloween (I didn't dress up) and they said, "Oh, you are you, Mrs. Royer!"  Ha ha ya.  I usually dress up but just didn't find anything this year that I liked.

 This is Memphis' costume.  I took Memphis to the store to pick out his own costume and he said no to everything.  So I found this shirt that said "Daddy's Caddy" with the picture of a little golfer on it with matching plaid shorts!  Memphis LOVES playing golf with his dad in the backyard so it was perfect.  We also found this plastic toy golf set to complete the costume.

That night we went to my cousin Aja and Mario's house for dinner (pizza!) and trick or treating.  I really wanted Memphis to go with other kids so I am glad he could go with his cousin's Aiden and Sam.  I have been having Memphis practice saying "trick or treat" and he was really good at saying it but I didn't think about teaching him how to trick or treat.  The first house we went to he said trick or treat and then walked right into the house and down the hall.  Danny went in after him.  The rest of the houses he did really well.  He would say "trick or treat" try to grab a handful of candy but hold out his bucket and then he always said, "Oh, THANK YOU!"  I am so proud of my polite boy:)

Kayzee just rode along in her stroller with me and Danny would go up to each house with Memphis.  My cousin's house is in Pleasant Grove up on the side of the mountain so the streets were really hilly so we took Memphis' stroller too just in case.  At first he walked but then he would climb in his stroller in between houses so he could get a ride up the hills.  Smart boy!

One house the man had a candy bowl that had a hand that reached out and grabbed Memphis' hand while he was reaching for candy.  Memphis held on to his candy and after that he would always check the bowl before putting his hand in:)

So to explain the above title...My son LOVES Little Einsteins the cartoon and I let him watch it every morning while I try to get everyone and everything ready for the day.  I recorded the Halloween one because it showed the kids trick or treating.  In the episode they went trick or treating to try and get enough candy to fill a bucket for a party.  They would shake the bucket and then ask if they had enough candy for the party but it needed to be full.  I didn't really think anything of it but noticed that Memphis kept shaking his bucket after each house he trick or treated at.  When his bucket was finally getting full he shook it and then said, "I got a party!"  It was so funny and he kept shaking his bucket and saying party, party, party!  Yep, he had enough candy for a Memphis party:)

Cutest cheeser ever!

 I told Memphis to stick out his tongue.  I can't believe he actually did it;)

 My mom got Memphis this cute shirt.  I LOVE it cause Memphis loves me and I love him even with his dirty face and hair in the eyes;)

 This is the shirt she found for Kayzee with the cute hair bow.  Kayzee hates headbands now can you tell?

What a fun Halloween we had but I still can't believe it is already November!  It's getting cold so I pulled out Kayzee's cute boots her grandma got her.

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!