smiling in south carolina

yes, it's a mini mohawk. i am sorry i don't have a "before" picture to show you. over the christmas break from school, i told robin that he could grow out his hair. he did and 2 1/2 months later it was all long, blond and wavy, beautiful actually. the costa rican ladies can't keep their eyes off of it. of course it was mostly uncombed and all in his eyes. 2 weeks after returning to school, the teacher requested that he cut it. it's in the school rule book that the boys keep hair short. on monday i took him to the hair "stylist", not the barber, because he loves to have his hair washed in those salon sinks! what a princess. our stylist, patricia, cut it according to the picture we found in the haircuts book, but the final result wasn't really as cool as robin wanted it to look. he was sad. only after a few tears (his) did she understand his disappointment. she then took out the COOL MEN'S HAIRCUTS book out from behind the counter. w...

this is rex. he is robin's new pet rooster. he's very young. robin bought him from a neighbor for $2, a whole week's allowance. the latest trend here is for all the boys in the neighborhood to buy pet roosters. that's alot of crowing! the first morning we had him locked inside a cardboard box in robin's bedroom (!) and he started crowing at 5:30am. oh my god. then he escaped the box into the house. we eat chickens, don't we? hmm. robin had to get up for school anyways, but that's too early for me to hear "cockadoodledoo" EVERY DAY. besides, the rooster is NOT going to live in the house. that was a temporary thing until we had other arrangements. we have no chicken house. well, we did, but it was rotten and i knocked it down last year. rex spent the afternoon enjoying the back yard. as of last night, rex is living up the street in a friend's chicken house. there he has his own little private section in a chicken house with ot...