ch-ch-ch-changes.

we have been most productive this weekend.  

by productive, i mean we have some big changes going on.

first and foremost, our oldest daughter has her first piercings. 

 i say this because several hours after we made our one and only trip to Claire's, ada asked how old you have to be to get your tongue and nose pierced!  

good golly, what am i in for!  

seriously, ada had been begging to get her ears pierced for a long time.  

it is not a fad in this neck of the woods (she doesn't have a single friend with theirs pierced).  but after a particularly difficult week, we decided to let her do it.  

she didn't even flinch.  

i did, however.

now she looks sparkly, which is just what she was shooting for.

in other business, we had hired a handyman to do a few things around our house next week.  reza decided that there was no need for extra handiness in our house and that he would be the muscles- you know, because he has so much free time.  i had my doubts (it did take him six hours and a trip to home depot to by a jigsaw to cut the corian kitchen counters just to install a new sink), but he did it!  

mission completed!

and that is just the beginning of my to-do list.

i would call it my honey-do list, but the reality is, now that there is no handyman coming, i will be doing most of the work myself.

and why are we doing this you may ask?  the big news is,  we are going to put our house on the market!  don't ask questions, we don't have answers.  but keep your fingers crossed for us!

i know i am biased, but could these kids get any cuter?

 yogurt.  yum.

 the last picture of my ada with naked ears.

 hard at work.

 with earrings, and her "teacher" glasses for playing school.

if only she liked her "real" school as much as she likes playing school!