Weekend: First Haircut, Anniversary and Booty Everywhere

     Well, this past weekend was quite a doozy.  Our restaurant is open for business again, which is a complete blessing.  Having to be closed for so long was such a nightmare, and it feels good to be serving chicken again to the masses.  However, after driving down Markham street today, I realize that we are so fortunate to only have had to deal with power loss.  So many others are dealing with much more.  A silver lining for me in this episode happened on Saturday.  In the midst of all the drama, our phone lines were also not working, which is so irritating.  So John had to forward the store phone to an extra cell line that we have for the store, which is attached to one of our old (about 4 years old) Razor phones.  Every time a customer called with a question or an order, the phone rang with the song "Booty, Booty, Booty, Booty, Booty Everywhere," which was a horrible song then and even more horrible now.  I have my younger sister to thank for sneaking that ring tone onto my phone way back when - it did make me laugh a lot in the midst of all the badness that had happened.
      Lily got her first haircut this weekend at Pigtails and Crewcuts, a shop that specializes in children's haircuts.  Since she has been a little touchy about life recently, we were not sure how it was going to go down.  However, all of our worries were in vain!  She did wonderfully, sitting in the police car sucking on her dumdum.  She would not remove her jacket, but that didn't really matter.  After the haircut, we rewarded her with a cupcake to be eaten in front of the fountain.  She was ecstatic, and so were we, at how well the whole experience went.  And her hair looks a little less mullety now.





(Bella watching, realizing it will be a long time until her first haircut.)


We went out for dinner for our anniversary later, with our little friends in tow.  (We are planning on really celebrating it in a couple of weeks with something a little more exciting.)  Since the weather was to die for, we ate outside at Buffalo Grill by the river and enjoyed cheesy fries, among other really healthy things.




Here's a shot of Lily helping me get ready to go.  It really is amazing to see how they try to imitate so early.



And, what I found in our laundry basket.



She loves to play with my shoes.  In other news, I finished the plaid wall!  I love the way it turned out and plan on sharing pictures very soon - possibly even tonight.  Stay tuned!