KoolAid hair dye

Emma received an iPad mini for her birthday. The entire immediate family pitched in to purchase it for her and she was sooooo happy! Ben squealed even louder because now he gets our old iPad all to himself. Ha! She has been obsessed with watching a YouTube reality show with two young sisters about her age and the other day she stumbled across a show where they dyed their hair with KoolAid.  She caught me in a moment of unclear distracted thinking and asked if we could dye her hair with the KoolAid, too. I said yes and was like, "Wait. What?"

Three stores later... We finally found some of that crazy powder with the power to dye your hair. It was an easy process and, "Wow!" it is certainly powerful. It's been a week and it is still vibrant red. 

A week later:

Madness, I tell ya. Hoping it's gone by the 1st day of school. 6 more weeks!

Yankee Game w our BFFs

It was HOT HOT HOT, but we had a blast at the Yankee game with our best buds! 

I dropped the kids off at camp at 9am, picked them up early at 10 and raced to the M's house. All the girls hopped in our car and the boys in the M car. We drove to the office to pick up daddy then made our way to the city. The traffic moved fine for the most part but it was an adventure after exiting the expressway to find our parking garage. It was right next to the stadium, but the traffic police had so many roads closed we had to go all the way around it getting an eye opening tour of the surrounding Bronx neighborhood. We finally found the garage we had prepaid for and got into the line. Too bad we entered the wrong section for prepaid!! The crazy sweet attendant redirected the traffic so both our cars could back out and go around to the prepaid entrance. There were surely a few cars cursing us as we went back out the in door! But we made it! Picture time at gate 4!

 

The boys were adorable holding hands as we made our way thru the metal detectors and ticket line. 

Our seats were in home run territory in left field. No home runs were hit but we forgot our gloves to catch the ball anyways!

Ben was a sweaty mess by the end of the first inning and ready to go home, "Why can't we just watch it together at our home?" Hahaha. Mama M whipped out her miracle machine that kept him occupied for the next five innings - a fan with a mister!!

How cute are we in Yankee hats? I didn't want to get beat up in the stands so I wore one...

The sun made it's way across the sky giving us a bit of shade for the last few innings. The kids lost interest in the game and enjoyed people watching. 

The Yankees wished Anna & Emma Happy Birthday!! It was so funny - Emma kept asking, "How did they know???"

Thank goodness for giant buckets of popcorn - kept the kids entertained. :)

It is impossible to get a good photo of Em these days... Big sigh. 

Our BFFs:

The Yankees lost to the Orioles, but we had a blast. The new stadium is beautiful and even though we were rocking rush hour traffic on the drive home, the kids entertained themselves and the day will go down in the books as another BEST DAY EVER. :)

Tired little man fell asleep w a book on his brain.