Every once in a while we ask Isabelle if she’d like to cut her hair. She usually replies, “no!”. Maybe that’s because Alan traumatized her by kidding around once saying, “how would you like daddy to cut your hair like mine, all short?”

That brings on tears and “but I’d miss my hair!”

Well a couple of weeks ago, we asked her if she’d like to cut her hair and she said yes. Her first real haircut, not done by herself. So, I jumped on that like bananas. Like the way bananas jump on gorillas. Like the way gorillas jump on monkeys. Wait…no, like the way monkeys jump on bananas. Yes, I actually thought that sequence out in my head and that’s exactly how it went before I figured it out. Or something like that. Isn’t there a saying that goes like that?

Ok back to what I was saying. Isabelle said yes so immediately we marched her into the bathroom and snip snip there went her hair.

And she loves it. And I love it (even though I can’t cut worth crap and it’s uneven). I love it because her hair is soooo easy to take care of now. No more troublesome knots and tangles.

And then she wanted a new name to go with her new haircut.

Since then she’s been thinking of new names for herself. Besides Dob, there’s been Sum. Then there was Little Mmmmmm and Big Mmmmmm for me and countless others. Then today it was Betsy. It’s fine with us just as long as it’s new names and not personalities that come with those names.

I’ve been playing around with my site lately. I went all mad scientist on it.

You may have noticed, I turned off comments a week ago. I decided to give it a try after running across a couple of blogs that didn’t have any comments. I thought: What an interesting idea. You don’t have to worry about spam then! But do you guys miss it? Is it totally anti-social? Have any comments on that?

Then I kept up mad scientisting my site: I changed my banner today and my twitter background picture. And now I have an idea about my “I Heart” section.

Have you noticed my “I Heart” section in my sidebar? I copied the idea from Secret Agent Josephine’s “Eye spy with my little eye”. Well anyhoo, my idea is that I’m going to start drawing the “I Heart” section to get my draw on. So, instead of grabbing a picture of what I’m loving I’ll draw it. I’m having drawing withdrawal I guess.

It’s been almost 6 months since I had this I MUST draw urge. Blame Secret Agent Josephine again. She’s started to draw daily and it got my yearning for it up and going again.

What else can I go mad scientist on?! Well, I think I’m done with my site for now so moving onto the real world and a GRAND EXPERIMENT.

And the title of this post is Mad Scientists because the GRAND EXPERIMENT involves Isabelle.

Ok that sounds so mysterious and exciting. But it’s not really. Do you remember what it was? It was us trying to grow things. Ooooohhhh!

It failed miserably last time and I’ve been wanting to try again so we bought a whole bunch of new seeds.

And this time we’re serious. We even bought planting gear!

That’s right. Gardening world, watch out, we’re well equipped here! We planted a seed, a single seed of corn, a week ago. (We learned this time and didn’t go all crazy planting a gazillion seeds.)

And lo and behold, it groweth. A plant thing sprouteth yesterday.

Ok so I’m not down with the gardening terminology. A plant grew. Is that what you say? A plant sprouted. A seed has…oh whatever.

We are mad scientists and mad scientists don’t need to talk properly. They can use crazy words. They’re mad! Bwa ha ha!!

And to prove our awesome powers, LOOK:

We have the power to mutate helium. This balloon has been up since Isabelle’s birthday back in September. It’s mutant helium. All cower at our mad sciencing. Bwa ha ha!

Ok, I obviously need to go to bed now. But seriously, Isabelle’s balloon…Craaaazzzzy!

(Last real picture “I Heart”) These dresses by faithworks4u make me happy. I think it’s the big buttons.