This week is Red Ribbon Week at Hailey's school. Everyday they were invited to do something fun to support drug awareness. Yesterday everyone was supposed to wear red and I even pinned a red ribbon on her that I had left over from when I taught school. I just had too! Today's theme was "We'd rather do our hair than do drugs!" also known as CRAZY HAIR DAY! I asked her what she wanted to do for it yesterday and she said she wanted to put spiders in her hair. She got a glow in the dark spider from gymnastics. I thought I had a lot of black ring spiders in my Halloween stash but I must have let the children play with them last year and they wound up getting thrown away. Too bad. So after school I had to make a trip to the store. I also picked up some green hairspray. She wanted the white spider to be the mom so we placed it right in the front. The only spiders I found were colored ones but they are fun too. So we had a little bit of fun making her hair all crazy. Brady wound up spraying her hair. It came out all crazy out of the can at first but then it started to do great. I took these pictures as she was sitting in the bathroom waiting for her hair to dry. Her hair wound up being bright green by the time she left for school. I even had to walk her to her class line for fun. I usually drop her off. It was raining so her raincoat hood was on her head. When we walked up the children were admiring a cute up-do of a girl nearby and the bright colors in the boys hair. After a minute, I removed Hailey's raincoat hood. Then one little boy said, "Look at Hailey!" They all rushed over. Hailey didn't say a word. Just smiled. I took a few pictures with my phone camera and kissed her goodbye. She's going to have a good day at school!

Here is a short clip of her in the bathroom waiting on the spray to dry. The first joke she learned was when she was three and it is the famous one of "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Her answer then was "To pick some apples". She has recently discovered that the real one is... "To get to the other SLIDE!" We had to capture that on film. I wonder when she will learn that isn't it either? I just love her crazy self. This day suites her very well.

[video:www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTXwBGM3Ios 500x500]

For fun!

Here is another short clip of her singing. She didn't know I was recording her. It is dark as the lights we dim. She was playing with play dough at the lakehouse. I was waking up.  She sings songs she knows but mainly she makes up stuff and adds crazy noises to them all the time. This video is pretty tame. She is singing something about taking someone to dinner to show them how much she loves them. I need to capture the other versions so you will understand. It is usually high pitched, off key and makes no sense but she is one dang happy girl doing it!

[video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S63zaRG47TE 500x500]

.............................................................................................................................................

After School Hair Washing Pics!