Not Everyone's Mama

It’s well known that Katiana doesn’t let me do her hair often.  She always wants to wear it down for school which frustrates the part of me that was so excited to have a girl finally so I could do her hair.  I stalk blogs like The Story Of A Princess And Her Hair and Babes In Hairland.  I envision my girls with these intricate hairstyles and beautiful braids and ribbons and flowers and then reality hits and see above for Katiana and why I don’t do her hair often.  Then there is Alyce who was finally getting longer hair, to the point I could do 2 french braids that almost stayed in.  Then the day came when she climbed up on my sink and cut her hair.  I took her to the salon and they looked at the mess and looked at me and said, um, what do you want us to do?  *sigh*  She’s finally got shoulder length hair……… on the bottom.  The top layers are still pretty short.  Not much stays in, minus pulling the top and sides up into a pony to keep it out of her face.

Today I was cruising a long the SITS superhighway when I come to another hair blog.  Shaunell’s Hair Blog to be more exact.  Somehow I came to this post, which is weird because it’s not even the first post that pops up when you go there.  It took me back to when I was younger and had hair past my waist and would do french braids in a halo kind of style around my head.  I had to try it.  I begged Katiana.  I promised it would take no more than maybe 6 minutes if I worked my fingers fast.  She let me.  It’s soooooo cute!

Tell me that is not adorable?  I don’t have any flower hair clips for the girls, but I have TONS of flowers that I’ve used for my digital scrapbooking.  Stuck a bobby pin through it and voila.  Instant hair accessory. 

And of course, I can’t do Kat’s hair without Alyce begging for them same.  Yeah, I had to improvise.  Her hair won’t stay in braids like this.  There are too many layers.  But she felt pretty and that’s all that matters.

anyone else have trouble keeping clothes on their 3 year old?

I just had to share that because I was so exicted Kat let me do her hair.    So much so, it’s my Project 365 picture today also.

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Just played around with Katiana’s hair.  You can read about it in this post.

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is only the cutest play ever!  We had so much fun last night! And I was so proud of Jordan.  Maybe he didn’t want no solo, no duo, no trio, no speaking part, no nada, but he did so good!  He danced!  My son was up there dancing.  I just about fell of my auditorium chair.  I’ve got pictures, not great pictures, what do you do when you don’t have a DSLR with a zoom lens?  I guess you edit them in paintshop pro to the best of your abilities and say, sorry ‘bout that.

The girls and I waiting for the show to start.  (If you missed my Project 365 self portrait yesterday, I cut 6 – 7 inches off the front of my head.  Gave myself bangs.  I was bored and tired of forehead wrinkles.)  I love my Facebook friends.  The ones I went to school with said that I look like I’m back in high school again.  I had to do something.  I was ready to cut off all my hair and I’ve been growing it out for 3 years.  This should tide me over as something different for at least a week or so.

My mama and the girls.

Now, the next one is blurry, but it’s hard to get a good picture when your trying to take a picture of the sleeping baby in your own arms.

I should have changed settings on my camera or something.

Jordan’s the one that’s NOT dressed up.  In my defense, I swear the email I got said to dress like a tourist, you didn’t have to dress up.  They didn’t state what flipping decade.  As if I didn’t know what decade the movie Annie was in.  I’m thinking the email might have been misread and it said TO dress up.  We’ll never know because it was one of the ones eaten in the great Incredimail debacle.  At least he has a camera right?  That makes him look tourist-y.

Acting like a tourist.

Hanging out with “Miss Hannigan”

You can’t see it here, but he was dancing.  I was all proud.  I looked at my mom and said, Jordan’s dancing!!!!

And a picture taken from Jordan’s camera on stage –

I love that kid!

So we had a great time.  My dad ended up showing up right when it started.  He had dropped mom off with me and gone to look at a house with my brother, didn’t take very long and I was grateful for the extra help with the littler ones.

Kat, Alyce, and Nano actually did really well.  I was nervous about taking them by myself.  Usually Pato is able to switch days off at work when Jordan has a program, but he already switched Wednesday for Tuesday so he could be at the boys’ birthday party.  He couldn’t maneuver it so that he could go to Annie Jr.  Katiana recorded it.  She has an even shakier hand than I do.  Don’t think that video will make it in the review when I get it up.  Pato got to see lots of shaking, backs of peoples’ heads and was able to hear Katiana say, scene 4.  scene 5.  Oops.  I was holding Christiano and taking pictures, you want me to record it too?  Sorry dude!

I’m going to post some pictures that Jordan took on his blog in a few minutes.  Have to finish editing them and resizing them.  Check on those in a bit.  You’ll see his birthday present from his dad that he was so stoked about.  It’s staying at his dad’s.

Have a great day!

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