Linus' first professional hair cut

For Easter we finally got Linus hair cut. We had Lauren at Sherif Zaki do the honors since she does such a nice job on me.


Mommy held Linus and daddy took pictures.

He looks great!

Handsome and ready for Easter.

Linus loves the playground and the swings

Last weekend before the rains we took Linus to the Can-Do playground. He loves the playground, especially the swings.

The playground has a pretty nice set up and all kinds of stuff, from swings to slides to other things that can be turned, manipulated or just provide fodder for young imaginations.

He can be a pretty intent swinger, as revealed in the video. He is having a good time, I assure you.

Work hard and study and you can anything you want to be...

The harsh reality of running a civilization.

(via Wondermark)

Linus the Sailor

Linus has a sailor hat in a dress up box that Lynn put together for him and his friends on his birthday. He looks pretty smart in it and loves to out it on and take it off again. He will delightedly crawl around with it own his head as well.


Smooshing the hat.

And then putting it on and off.



I just hope he doesn't get those swollen forearms like Popeye. But we could get him a sash and scimitar like Sinbad, but that is a separate sailing tradition from the hat he has. Anchors away Linus.

Dress like Linus day - gray shirt and jeans

Every so often Linus picks out a nice outfit for the both of us. He decided on a gray shirt and jeans two weeks ago and so I followed suit.



I am not sure why he was gesturing to the camera like that, he does that a lot now, it his universal gesture for "take me there" or "I want that to investigate it".

Hand crafted Elmo baby hangers

There was many a time when Linus was this little that it was hard to hold something over his playpen or bouncy seat that would keep him happy for the hour that he wanted it. I don't think I ever stooped to coat hangers, but I now realize that I could have.



(via There I fixed it)

The toddler Fifth Element

This Sunday we got an ottoman with four smaller ottomans (ottomen?) inside for our family room. Linus had to thoroughly investigate them. I helped him put his four colored blocks on top as we staged the toddler "The Fifth Element".




Blue is water. Green is earth. Red is first and yellow air. Or do you have a better assignment?