Elder Manning in Kaunas (WE LOVE YOU BUD!)

So I am so excited I received some pictures of Elder Manning in Kaunas and thought that they were fun pics and decided to post them on the blog!!! We LOVE YOU Elder Manning:)

First home haircuts

Last week, the boys experienced their first "home haircuts", and I will admit I think that they turned out very nice. Derek cut both the boys hair, Henry as always just sat there and was awesome. Harrison has been a little bipolar when it comes to his attitude when receiving a haircut, sometimes he will sit there and behave and other times, you have to hold him in wrestling like stances while sitting in a chair. He was not good on this first home haircut it sounded like we were performing an excurcism or something, he made high pitched screaming noises I didn't know was possible. Derek was brave enough to let me cut his about half way through cutting Dereks I stopped and told him I was not sure if it was a good idea that I cut his hair, we both concluded that we were in too deep, so to say and that I just needed to continue, so I did :) So when you see Derek tell him that his hair (that is there) looks good ;) So the question is would we do home haircuts again???? SURE!!!!
The pictures are the before, during and after. My favorite one is the one where Harrison is looking at Henry right after the haircuts. We asked Harrison what he thought of Henrys haircut and he turned and looked at Henry:) It was pretty funny

TUBOPHOBIA

TUBOPHOBIA- A SUDDEN ONSET, FEAR OF BATHING
So there was about a good month that went by that Harrison honestly seemed scared of the tub he acted like he totally feared it. Even when all you would say to him is "do you want a bath?" he would flip out and run around the house and hide in a corner. He had us flustered we had no idea what the heck was going on, he used to love having baths some days he would have up to 3 or even 4 because he loved it so much. Derek and I could not figure out what had caused this sudden onset of fear when it came to bathing.
Then one day I walked in the bathroom and Harrison was sitting in it, he had thrown all of his toys in and was sitting there fully clothed. He sat there pointing to the duck where the water comes out saying "BATH. BATH", so I started the bath and prepared him, I am happy to report that Harrison once again looks forward to bathing and is back to his everyday routine (once, twice, three times) and is back to doing something he loves while bathing.....blowing bubbles, from both ends. The two pictures are from that breakthrough day :)