Scattered Thoughts . . .

W hen Sheila went to pick up Lukey and Kenzie at the rink last night, there was talk of Lukey needing a haircut.  He has been growing his hair long for a few years now and it definitely needed to be cleaned up a bit.  Honestly, I had intended to give him a quick trim to clean up his hair last night anyway before our trip this morning.  It turns out that both his mom and his dad were talking about a fade for Lukey so that is what I did last night. We cut off a lot of hair!  I had only planned to clean up his hair a bit with a quick trim but a fade would require a big change by cutting off a lot of hair.  Needless to say, this took a little bit of time and Lukey was beginning to get a little impatient so I didn't get as picky as I normally would.  Regardless, his hair looks pretty good now...  clean...  neat...  and, best of all, Lukey likes it.   Before we started on his hair, he chose a photo of a boy with a fade.  I definitely...

L ukey and Kenzie stayed with us a month or two ago so we could do some shopping with them.  While Lukey and I were waiting for Gee and Kenzie, I shot a few photos of Lukey as he watched a Christmas movie.   I had a bunch of prints professionally printed in early December and this photo of Lukey was one of the prints.  I put it in an extra frame I had lying around for the next time Lukey was here at our house.  I wanted to see how long it took him to notice that he is an elf in the photo. Lukey and Kenzie arrived at our house last night and the framed print was propped up on the kitchen table.  It took him about ten minutes to even notice that there was a new photo of him but he did not notice the elf ears.   Kenzie was laughing...  Gee was laughing...   Lukey still didn't notice anything odd about the photo and exclaimed, "WHAT?" in reference to all the laughing.  Another few minutes passed as he more carefully looked at the p...