"Tressed" For Success

When it takes wire cutters, fake birds, and sprayable super glue to get your kids ready for school, you know it can mean only one thing...

IT'S CRAZY HAIR DAY!!

If you know our family very well, you know that we like this day... a lot. Crazy Hair Day is right up there with Christmas and Easter.

For McKenna's annual 'do,' we pick a theme each year. We had this spectacular idea that we'd been planning for weeks, but the night before the big day, we stopped in Michaels to pick up one last supply... and that's when she saw them: Fake Birds. Amongst all the Easter/Spring stuff on display, a pillar of light shone upon them. And that was that. She was in love. Thus, our new theme, was born. We call her look: "SPRING FEVER!!"

One thing you should know about McKenna is that her middle name is 'Competitive.' If she's in it, she's in it to win it... even Crazy Hair Day. She's won the last three years, but when the door opened and slammed shut at 2:50 p.m. today, I knew it had happened.

She lost.

It wasn't a pretty sight. She's not what you would call a 'Good Sport.' And to make matters worse, she loss by one point to the one girl in her class that she loathes!! (Funny side note: When I asked Kenna why she didn't like this girl, she replied, "She laughs like a clown with a rat in her throat!!" Ok...) Anyway, losing is always a good learning experience... especially for Miss McKenna Lyn.

Kyler has a love/hate relationship with Crazy Hair Day... depending on his current mood. (Seriously, he's worse than a teenage girl.) For days, he insisted that he was NOT participating in Crazy Hair this year, but then at 9:00 p.m. the night before the big day, he was bawling that I hadn't bought anything for his hair!! That his how he ended up with his sister's tights on his head. Sometimes you gotta make do with what you have, ya know!? We call his look: "THE TIGHTY WHITEY!"

And... the last minute "Tighty Whitey" won him first place in his class! Being the sweet (and moody) soul that he is, he shared his candy winnings with his demoralized sister. With that single act of compassion, all was happy yet again in the Stevens home.
Though not yet a Rimrock Raptor, Carson was a rock star at preschool with his spiky, blue locks! We call his look: "THE AVATAR!" Look out up-coming Kindergartners! Carson's totally gonna rock Crazy Hair Day next year!
As for Ashton, he didn't get into the fun this year. He was slightly in shock at the sight of his bizarre looking siblings. But next year... he too will be getting CAH-RAZY!!

Happy Crazy Hair Day from the Stevens Family!