September already?
We are having unseasonably cool weather here so the girls and I have been able to take walks and play at the play ground. Tessa is finally old enough to appreciate the swings. She thought they were great and giggled every time I pushed her higher. I think she is going to be a little daredevil. This weekend we were at a restaurant and she managed to stand up in her high chair. (Sabrina didn’t do that in 2+ years of high chair sitting.) We managed to stop her from doing a dive off the high chair but it was awhile before mommy’s heart rate returned to normal.
The food issues are improving. She is trying to eat things with chunks and textures. She isn’t always successful but she seems to want to eat them now. That is a big step forward. I’m going to wait and see how things progress this week before deciding if we should keep the feeding therapy evaluation appointment or not. I probably will but if she makes great strides this week I don’t think we’ll bother with it.
Sabrina insisted that she and Tessa needed to wear jackets with their shorts on Sunday morning because it was cold. I wasn’t in the mood to fight with her about it – so they are wearing short and jackets. And as someone pointed out on facebook, the ladies at the mercado in Antigua would be proud! Although they would likely still scold me for not having a hat on her. (For my non-adoption friends, when we walked around with our babies in Antigua, the ladies would scold us if the babies weren’t wearing long sleeves, hats, and shoes. They would sometimes go as far as to say we were going to kill our babies by not covering their heads. They even said this when it was 85 degrees and I had a baby shaped sweat mark on my chest because I was wearing the little furnace in a Bjorn.)
And I had to share this because it made me laugh. Sabrina is such a little mommy. She always wants to comfort/feed/tickle/put to bed/take care of her babies and animals. I came into the living room after putting her to bed the other night and found this. (She isn’t sure what to do with her Sit N Spin so she has decided it is a little table.) The red things are plastic apples from another toy and they are resting on a pink Barbie plate. The next morning she immediately went to them and explained to me that her animals were crying because they were hungry. She was feeding them apples.
Tomorrow? Tune in for tales from Sabrina’s first dance class and many photos.
Any tips on getting her fine hair into a bun as required without a bottle of hairspray? I have to go buy 1000’s of bobby pins tonight.
When my girls were little, I found it easier to do a braided bun – I put their hair into a pony tail, braided it, then wrapped the braid into a bun shape.After making the bun, wrap it with a hairnet (the kind school-lunch ladies wear) or a pretty crocheted bun cover from the dancewear store. I found it easiest to work with damp hair will a little bit of hair gel worked in.
But my favorite way to do little girls’ hair was in a snood. It’s a lace or knit bag attached to a hairbow on a clipn also sold at dancewear stores. You put the hair in a pony, attach the snood, stuff the hair in it and pin to the head.
Have fun!
Just use one of those rubbery tiny elastics. My kids’ hair is the same way and it works on them. However, my kids’ hair is so short I can never “bun” it anyway — getting ready for recitals is a trial! I can’t imagine doing it every week! I’d probably use one of the tiny rubber bands and twist the hair up into a little clippy. My sister says they’re called alligator clips.
Seriously? A bun for a dance class for three year olds? Ugh. So happy I have boys. Kelly is the queen of doing hair for all those gymnastics meets. I would ask her.
Enjoy dance class!! It will be so fun!!!
I like jackets w/shorts. We do it here in Maine all the time. They look adorable. Good luck w/Tessa. I call it second child syndrome!!
The imaginations of three year old’s is amazing, and fun, isn’t it? At least, most of the time
I have two little ballerinas, one with fine hair…the trick is to wet her hair before you try doing anything to it. After you wet it, use a bit of gel or mousse before you put it into a ponytail. Then wrap it, pin it, wrap it, pin it, etc until it’s in a neat little bun…the hair nets do work really good too! I get ours for about $1 for two at Sally Beauty supply, and we can use one for while as long as you’re careful when you take it out! Have fun at dance class!!
Hair net and wetting, geling and braiding. My hair is also super straight, super fine and when I was in ballet (ages 4-6) my mother actually had to use EXTENSIONS to fill the hair net for my recitals.