Maybe the charger needs batteries.

Always a hairy haircut.

It was time for Mr. E to have a haircut.

Since I now have an apprentice under me at my salon (Anna), I decided to have her practice on Mr. E. The tricky part is, is that Mr. E absolutely hates the newly cut hair to fall on or down his neck whatsoever, and really, who doesnt that bother. With this kids tactile sensitivities its extra bothersome believe it or not. It's always harder to cut hair on a somewhat squirmy and impatient kid, BUT I was Super impressed with Mr. E today!!

 Anna is still learning, so a haircut takes a little longer than it normally would so I prepped Mr. E. (especially Since things tend to roll out of his mouth) I told him that he needs to be very nice and not complain or whine because Anna is learning, and we want her to feel good about herself while cutting his hair. I was proud of him, he was very polite! He did ask a few times when she would be done but other than that he did great. It did help that half way through the haircut, Anna let him play games on her IPhone.

The first half of the haircut, Mr. E told Anna all about his oragami tanks, buildings, airplanes, jets ect. Then moved onto his other obsession, minecraft which then lead to the question, for the umpteenth time 

    "mom why can't I play on your IPad"

 I again told him that the charger wasn't working.

 He then said "mom maybe the charger just needs batteries". 

I said "yes maybe."

Fixation - Buildings - Paper

Mr. E wanted to see youtube videos on how model buildings were built. We found some videos where they make the model buildings out of paper. He got started right away making his own paper city.

I found a fold-out brochure of a panoramic picture of New York, taken from Top of the Rock, from my New York trip last year. He was so excited when I gave it to him that he took it to school and showed his teacher and friends. He carried it around for a couple of weeks and would pull it out and look at it. He used the brochure to pick out the types of buildings to make for his paper model city. What was super cute is he decided to make a model city for himself and then got the idea to surprise his school teacher with a model city as well. She loved her model city and displayed it the rest of the school year.

Mr. E keeps asking if we can sell his little model city to the mayor of our city. I've told him that the mayor probably won't buy it but we can give it to him....