Indy & First Full Hair Cut

We headed down to Indy last Friday for a visit -- we had a wedding on Saturday and Cassie and B.Rosie's wedding shower on Sunday -- BUSY!!! Aunt Kiki had threatened the weekend before (she was up in Chi-town for Cassie's Bachelorette) that James' hair needed to be cut or she (the crazy pregnant one) was going to take care of it :-) Here are the last pictures of his curls :-( I miss them but his new hair-do is cute and it still gets curly at his back cowlick, so I still somewhat win :-)
Above :: havin' some fun with Pops -- poor Pops had a bulging disc in his back on our visit but didn't know it so he had trouble bending to pick up/put down the lil' one and just moving (or sitting) in general.
Below :: Madilynn was in town for a very important "what to do now that dad/mom is back from war" class -- we were SO EXCITED to see her!!! She really loves to play with James and is a great baby-entertainer. Her and Kris met us out at The Original House of Pancakes (amazing) for breakfast on Saturday and then we got to see them at Bre and Clev's wedding later that night. She had fun playing peek-a-boo with him :-)

This picture was when he was playing peek-a-boo and covering his eyes (I'll post video in the next post). PS -- notice the place mat Kris found us -- awesome! It sticks to the table and has a catch-all pocket and washes easily -- fantastic!

Here we are at Cookie Cutters, getting a last pic of his curly mess of hair that I loved so much!

See, he wanted to keep his curls, he was willing to comb them himself :-)

First cut -- it was not this easy the entire time -- Jim and I were both holding him in lock-down at one point during it -- the lady did a decent job considering the screaming subject :-)

The finished product -- back view -- looks like a grown up lil' boy now (still oh so cute)

Brian's mom, Sharon, threw Cassie and him a co-ed wedding shower on Sunday. It was fun to see what "month" people got for their gifts and how they coordinated them. Sharon and her friend did an amazing job setting up the yard and getting all the food ready and there were even a bunch of my old HS PE teachers there to catch up with (Sharon was a PE teacher at my HS). She got everyone these shirts to celebrate the upcoming festivities -- this is James in his small shirt -- hit the floor! haha!