Many of you would remember Monkey's "spikey hair". He loved it and I only ever heard very positive comments about it from other parents. The teacher never said a word. I guess they are a little less understanding in Parma Ohio!!!
PARMA, Ohio - A kindergarten student with a freshly spiked Mohawk has been suspended from school.
Michelle Barile, the mother of six-year-old Bryan Ruda, said nothing in the Parma Community School handbook prohibits the haircut, characterized by closely shaved sides with a strip of prominent hair on top. The school said the hair was a distraction for other students.
An administrator at the suburban Cleveland charter school first warned Barile last fall that the haircut wasn't acceptable. The school later sent another warning to her reiterating the ban.
Mohawks violate the school's policy on being properly groomed, school Principal Linda Geyer said. Also, the school district's dress code allows school officials to forbid anything that interferes with the conduct of education.
Ruda's hair became a disruption last week when Ruda arrived freshly shorn, Geyer said. Administrators called Barile on Friday telling her to pick Ruda up from school.
"This was his third infraction," Geyer said Tuesday. "We felt that we were being extremely patient."
"It's something that he really likes," Barile said. "When people hear Mohawk, they think it's long, it's spiked, it's crazy looking, and it's really not."
muffins you say?
Quick, hide the evidence!
You know how you can never figure out which way is up in a picture. Monkey solved that. Here's the picture one way with 2 eyes and a smile:
And flipped 180 degrees - with a smile and 2 eyes in the other direction too!
I can just see the youth hanging around in the local coffee shops complaining "those old people sure get away with stuff that I can't. I tell you, the old guys these days are worse than the old guys from 20 years ago". A 76 year old guy driving to his doctor's appointment got clocked speeding 50Km/h over the limit and was going fast enough to be considered in the street racing category. They charge him with it but it doesn't stick because he is old and was on the way to his doctor's appointment.
76 year old "Norman Harding of Pembroke, Ont., was clocked by a police officer as travelling 130 km/h while passing a vehicle in an 80 km/h zone in January. Speeds of 130 km/h or more are considered stunt driving under a new Ontario law and conviction carries a fine of $2,000 to $10,000, along with six demerit points. However, he also said the street-racing law was not meant to be applied to seniors driving to a doctors appointment." You can see the full article here http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/02/21/ot-harding-080221.html
'His friend Douglas Biggs also doesn't believe Harding should have been charged in the first place under a law designed to reduce street racing fatalities among young drivers." The police are a little out of control I'd say," said Biggs. "I have total respect for law, but they're going a little overboard."
I don't particularly care that he is old and wasn't drag racing. Doing 50 km/h over the speed limit at any age on any road is irresponsible. I think that they are setting a dangerous precedent in taking his age and his declared destination into consideration. The man was driving recklessly. What is the cut off point when you are no longer considered even capable of being suspected of stunt racing? I mean obviously at 76 I believe that he wasn't drag racing. If he was 25 could he have been? What about 35? What about 19 but with his kid in the car? Does that buy him maturity credits? I have known of reckless drivers covering a range of ages. They age, they don't always become better drivers. Racing or not, it was stupid and I am glad that his car was impounded for a week and that he had to pay a hefty fine.
Today, with Jeff and Katie in town we headed off to the 67s game with Heather and Nick. What an absolute blast. I am quite convinced that the kids couldn't have cared less about the game, but we had a great time none-the-less. 
He received gifts of trucks trucks and then some more trucks. He was completely bside himself with happiness.
Things got a little dicey when it came time to cut into Mater. Big C was not at all convinced that we should be doing that. When he realised that Mater was a cake and very edible he calmed down.
Everyone went home and napped! A success all around : )
take note of big c's bum next to Monkey in the photo above.
The new guest at the table for every meal!
30 minutes into the nap Daddy found this:
clearly, big c had missed that he was supposed to be SLEEPING. He just thought that Daddy was being generous by putting him up in his room and keeping Monkey from trying to play with the toy. Once the Hello Doctor was removed the nap followed very shortly after. It'll be out of batteries soon...did I mention that it talks and makes helicopter noises? Yep, yep it does.
He is lying down beside it to demonstrate that it is almost as big as him.
And that means...all aboard!!! He can ride it!!
Next he opened up the John Deere tractor from Grandma and Grandpa W
