The kids are having a read a thon at school and this year's theme is dr. Seuss. Reading a certain amount of books gained them a theme day, thus Wacky Hair Day.
Now, I'm not very exciting when it comes to hair. Just never got into the habit of gelling the boys' hair and usually just put the girls' into pony tails. But for a special day like this? It's fun to get into spirit of it and make memories.
But we didn't have much gel. So I asked my hair professional friend if it's true that I remembered her talking about using corn syrup in hair. Yup, she confirmed, works like a CHARM!! So, we're getting one less recipe of stropwaffle syrup out of our corn syrup bottle but the boys' hair did. not. move. I should add that we "gelled' then sprayed with hairspray and dried it all good with the blow dryer. Dertermined to outdo the rain!! The good news? It washes out better than gel.
Sam opted for crazy spikes in the front...
and a smiley face in the back. but in real life it was actually kind of creepy and halloweenish....
Cody went for the ever popular mohawk although I've never seen a mohawk quite as rigid as this one... I could push down on it and it didn't move. I informed Steve that with a corn syrup, hair spray, hair dryer combo he could probably build a house with no nails. Not that it would do very well in Wet Coast weather....
He had ponies decorating the sides and back.
Cam had a combine taking care of his wheat field. Although he was very wimpy about the hair pulling involved with trying to move corn syrup through it, so his wheat didn't stand in very straight rows!!
We aren't very practiced farmers so we started by clipping straight up the middle instead of the outside rows.
I laughed really hard when at supper Cara said she had spilt her chocolate milk while playing Red Rover. Cara does not drink chocolate milk for anything! Why did she have chocolate milk in her hand??? Until I clicked in that she meant her hair had escaped the cup! I'm a little slow sometimes!!!
The biggest lesson for the day was that by having all the lunches nearly ready to go the night before I had all the time I needed to get this done before the bus came. Not that I've gotten anywhere for tomorrow's lunches.
