The Helper, the (Hair) Butcher and the Reader

Roman loves to push things around the house, including the trash can and various floor cleaners. One of his favorite toys is a red mini-Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner, which belonged to Ava first. He also likes this little dustbuster/mini-vacuum cleaner thing I use around the house. If I'm cleaning, he'll get his little red vacuum and follow me around. Today while I was vacuuming, I kept seeing the little red vacuum creeping up on me out of the corner of my eye. Wherever I was, Roman was there, "helping." He even helped me on the stairs, which was a little scary. He also loves to sweep with the big dust mop we have. The downside to this is that he usually drops my mini-vac and spills the contents all over the floor. He also likes to empty the dirt receptacle on my big vacuum cleaner. I have to be one step ahead of him, or I'll be cleaning everything up again.

On another note, I planned on getting Roman's hair cut professionally today. However, Gianni had to work and wanted me to wait until tomorrow. Well, you know me. When something is bothering me, I have to do something about it. I watched a video on YouTube, read some articles and decided I was ready to cut his hair myself. We have shears from when I used to cut Ava's bangs. Anyway, Ava and I took him outside and put him in his highchair. I followed the directions from the Internet faithfully, but things didn't turn out so well. It isn't terrible, but his bangs do look like Jim Carrey's in Dumb and Dumber. I didn't cut off his curls. I'm not ready to go there yet! We're taking him in to get it fixed by a professional tomorrow. I wish Gianni's mom, Barbara, lived closer so she could take care of these simple cuts for me. Here's the video. Ava was my videographer, so I had to do some editing later on. That is why it jumps every now and then. I think my problem is that I got the whole haircut done in under 3 minutes! You can see when it starts to go wrong, too.




On another note, I'd like to share some video of Ava reading a bedtime story to Roman. She is so sweet to read to him. I think it is good for both of them -- she gets practice and he gets extra attention from his big sister. In the videos below, Roman was totally distracted by the camera. He's still cute, and Ava is so sweet and earnest in her reading to him.