Sarah Hamlin Photography: Update on Life

Orion got a new bike a few weeks ago. It's a real cruiser!

Unfortunately, we bought it in the middle of that heat wave and he was too hot to ride it for a couple of weeks. But he has been out a few times in the last couple of days, enjoying the rides. He even survived his first crash on it with just a small scrape on his leg. (He ran straight into Zac's truck! :) (I mean it's not funny...but it kind of was, since he didn't get hurt :)

Maebelle loves to color on her mirrored closet doors with the window markers. A few days after our out of towner family members came to visit, I found Maebelle drawing on her mirror and she showed me this -

She explained that it was Taylor on the camel visiting the pyramids. :) Apparently she thought that was really cool. She is introduced to a lot of different cultures from her friends at her school and is very interested in other parts of the world. I hope this is something we can foster as time goes on and maybe one day she'll have the chance to travel the world and see what there is to see.

Meanwhile, Orion was found coloring on the living room floor. He was drawing a villain that Spiderman was about to defeat.

His villain was all black. He did a wonderful job with it. And he had figured out what he was supposed to do without me reading it to him. He has become more interested in sounding out words and has started to use context either from pictures or other words to figure out what he's wanting to know, whether it be a word, or as in this case, what he should draw.

Well, Superhero day came around again. Last year's Super Hero Day looked like the next three pictures...

And this year, Orion decided he wanted to be Tornado Man again. Here is the 2012 model...

And Zac made Maebelle a mask, too. Boys and Girls Club didn't do a Super Hero Day, but Maebelle had lots of fun dressing up and playing with Orion that evening!

And this evening, Maebelle got her hair cut! It was time for a style. Here is the before...

And Scotti was nice enough to let me take some pictures of the process. It was fun to document it! :)

She does a wonderful job for all of us! I hadn't seen Scotti in a few months probably, maybe more. And it was good to get to talk to her for a few minutes. :)

I miss some of my Merc friends that I used to get to see regularly! Even just the hello's as we'd pass by each other once a week. They are a good, fun group and I do miss them.