Turkey Trot and New 'Do

Bennett asked me and Stephen to come to school this morning to watch him run his first ever, one-mile, turkey trot.  We've never really seen Bennett run, besides on a soccer field, and we thought the prizes for this race sounded hilarious: first place wins a turkey, second wins a Cornish game hen, and third place wins a whole chicken.  Sadly, the P.E. teachers forgot to show up.  Ha!  There are all the fourth and fifth grade classes lined up with their teachers, ready to go, and the people who organized it are missing.  They'd even sent home flyers to the families.  I hoped the teachers would let the kids run anyway, but no such luck.  They all went back to their classes.  So no one-mile race for Mr. B.

But... this little girl decided she could have her own turkey trot.

She ran the whole way home.

 

Other than this quick "Stop for a second, Millie" shot

Notice something different about her?

 

She finally had her first haircut.

Yes, we realize she's almost 4 and 1/2 years old.
(heads hung in shame a little)

 

Mommy was out of town a few weekends ago,

and while the boys and Daddy were at the barber shop,

Millie joined in on the action.

 

I confess I freaked out a little when on the phone that day (while still on trip)

Millie told me her hair was as short as mine.

I thought we had said no more than two inches,

but apparently hair that's never been cut needs more than two inches taken off.

My panic subsided after Stephen texted me a photo.

Definitely shorter than expected,

but still cute and girlie.