I'm in hair heaven! (pics at bottom!)

So... I'm sure that everyone else has thought of this already

- HAIR BLOGS -

Where have I been? I have a hair blog... why wouldn't other people? As I was being bored and peaking into stranger's blogs (I know we are on the internet, but if I don't know someone personally I feel a bit stalkerish) I found other moms. With kids. With kids that have cut hair. Their own hair. Short. And it is awkwardly growing out.

Sound familiar?

Yes! There are other mommies that have a four year old that cut her hair and left them with a somewhat abysmal mess that is ever so difficult to remedy each morning.

I started with shedoeshair.blogspot.com and from their I have steeped myself into a bit of hair heaven. Wonderful! So many blogs are out there!

Yeah, I am in hair school so there is some assumption that I can 'do hair.' Truth: not so much. That's why I am in school! I'm paying thousands of dollars so my kids can look better ;-) and all my siblings too....

Thankfully, hair styling is the chapter we are on at school and so this new blog find is amazing and much needed! Why did I not think to look for this before? I found flat iron curls on you-tube... (Gold by the way. Gold.) surely I could have found mommy blogs on hair. I'll bet there are professional blogs too! The possibilities are endless!!!

Check out the results: hair headbands! Mik thought she was pretty awesome (and she is!) We decided we will do a new hairstyle every day!

Just when I thought he was growing up

Wasn't he cute as a little itty bitty baby?

And now we have: Big Man Eating Candle (It's healthy. I promise)

Today was Row's one year appointment. 21 pounds 5 ounces... 29 something inches, and as usual a good head size which I absolutely cannot remember. The bitter truth-little man is growing growing and will one day be gone. (yes, I know it's years away but I will so miss the cuddles I have to steal late at night when he is so sleepy he has no choice but to snuggle!)

I was anticipating the Dr. telling me that Row needed to be off his bottle (would be but a friend's dog ate his one and only sippy cup)he needed to be asleep in his own bed, eat adult food, and all those typical normal things. I was also scared that he had an obstructed bowel due to his HUGE gut and chronic problems in the diaper zone.(I thought he ate a Farkle die... we can only find five of six)

And she did tell me all those things. I sort of lied about the bottle... I know he would be off of it if I had another sippy cup so I went ahead and said he was because I know he could be, because he used to be and I do fully anticipate getting another cup for him so that he will be. Really. That was really poor grammar. Wow. And I feel guilty for sort of telling the truth. I'll tell you the truth now- My doctor intimidates me and I didn't think she would buy my lame excuse (how much effort does it take to stop and get a sippy cup- almost none!)so I just avoided the issue and now have new guilt issues. Learn from me -honesty first, embarrassment over lame excuses later....

Oh, and he does NOT have an obstructed bowel.(where are you Farkle die?) And in addition to those normal things I was also told that I should keep him on formula as long as I could (I knew I felt guilty for quitting pumping for a reason!) and encourage him to eat baby food as long as possible. Why? I have no idea. Although I do hope formula (something new in our house) will keep the diaper zone a safer zone. That's my only wish right now.

So, just when I thought he was growing up I find myself reverting a little bit. I haven't bought baby food in months. So I guess I'll just buy a little and see if he will even eat it at all AND I'm going to buy formula (too bad I threw out those samples!)Go figure :-)