Hair Care
Natalie’s hair is getting longer and harder to control. I’m not sure I could articulate why, but I don’t want to cut it. Maybe it’s the story my mom tells about my brother’s first haircut…As she tells it, he had the most beautiful blond ringlet curls in the back of his head and after his first haircut, his hair was straight. The beautiful curls never returned. I guess I’m afraid of altering or even of damaging Natalie…I already feel guilty as hell for the scar on her nose from her fall at 3 months. It’s faded, but still there. I know she’ll need a haircut sooner rather than later, so I’ll have to get over my issues!
We’ve started putting Natalie’s hair up in the “Pebbles” pony-tail at night. The first couple of nights, she slept for longer stretches than usual, which had me hopeful that hair tickling her face was the cause of all her night-waking. I was so excited that I didn’t blog about it for fear of jinxing it. Unfortunately, it must have been a fluke, because she’s back to her usual sleep patterns. Oh well, it still looks cute, and does a good job of keeping hair out of her eyes…
Today, Natalie insisted on wearing ALL of her hair clips:
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
It’s not that his curls went away forever–just not visible, because he has hair like yours–the curls are on the ends. When he had long hair in high school, he had beautiful curls again.
But then I remember how much you resented my cutting your hair when you were 7 or so. Your could probably get away with trimming Natalie’s hair now, but not when she’s older and can protest!