Parenting is really hard at times, but that's expected. What really gets you is the unexpected first.. like dealing with your child's first possible failure. It's gut wrentching.
As usual, Jason wrote the fabulous post about it over at DadCentric, so instead of rehasing emotions over here, I will just direct you there, but tide you over with some shots of the little guy trying his hardest to achieve his little goals.
** He did, indeed, get his orange belt..
Lucas has been wanting to wear sunglasses to camp. I think some of the other kids, or maybe his "man crush" Cam
eron (his counselor and current center of his day camp universe) wear them so he's been insisting. No problem, we are a pretty "accessorized" family anyway, so the obsession makes sense. The only problem is the circa-90's Oakleyesque, Spiderman licensed Target pair that he currently has. Now if you are wondering how they even got bought in the first place my response is just "have you been to Target with a 5 year old lately?!" He wants everything from band-aids to plastic guns to ANOTHER huge bouncy ball to a new bike, and you will do anything to just shut them up so you can figure out which deodorant to buy (which seems to be a hard decision recently.. there are soo many.. egh..). Anyway, the Spiderman sunglasses were a moment of "fine, if you will stop asking for anything else" weakness. And, to my fashion-diva-wanna-be horror, he's been wearing them daily.
So the other day while in the kids department I decided to pick him up a pair that I deemed a bit cooler..
But they reminded us of something.. then we started laughing..
Look familiar?
I die for that "just out of the ocean" hair. When I was a teenager and got to spend 3 weeks on Catalina Island SCUBA diving to my hearts content at Sea Camp my hair always thrived.. so of course i was INTRIGUED and started obsessing when I saw this "surf spray" from Bumble and Bumble. I finally broke down and bought it yesterday but haven't really tried it. I'm actually kinda scared of it. Scared my hair will look dirty and sticky and I will have to reshower. Who has time for 2 showers a day?!
I did spray a little on my (dirty) dry hair this morning for fun..and one advantage is that I feel like I just came back from the beach, with a slight sandy/salty smell and taste in my mouth. But just got back from the beach in desperate need of a shower feel also.
Maybe I just need a shower?