Baby's hair--then and now

I just discovered a bunch of pictures. Can you remember how hairy he was when he first came out? Here's a reminder:



He was so cute and hairy--a true Phur:



He had the best turtle face ever:



He had the looks. He had the brains.



He had curls when his hair was wet.



He out-haired other babies:



He had the most Gollumy sideburns this side of Middle Earth:



But then he started pulling out chunks of his own hair (note bald stripe):




Then his mom treated his cradle cap and he lost all the hair in the front of his head--so he had Gollum sideburns AND no bangs but long stringy hairs on the top of his head:



Then his mom cut the sideburns and finished treating the cradle cap. Now it looks a little better and we are all a little happier:



But not that happy. Because he is still bald on the top of his head.

good morning pictures--plus, baby hair cut?

Baby was being funny this morning--here are some pictures of him. He loves smiling and does it a TON.




Yes, he has Gollum sideburns. I keep thinking I might cut them off, but then AH! I remember that that's all the hair he has! Can I really do that?

We'll take a vote. Comment your thoughts. Cut his hair and get rid of those weird Gollum sideburns, or keep the hair because he's a little baby and he needs every hair he can get?

updates!

Carl and I are watching James this week while my family is on vacation in Florida. It's been chill so far. Yesterday we watched:

- Hidalgo
- When In Rome
- The Lincoln Lawyer
- Sweet Home Alabama
- State of Play

Today we watched:

- Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl
- The Adjustment Bureau
- Pride and Prejudice (with Kiera Knightley)
- The Princess Bride
- Night at the Museum

Since all James can really do at this point is watch things, we are stuck watching things all day long. There was nothing really on TV so we took turns picking movies. Bet you can't guess who picked what! ^.~

Nathaniel's been good. He's spent more and more time awake and alert. Right now he's cuddling with his daddy. That's my favorite thing to see.

James has been all right. He's lately been doing this full-body charlie horse thing, where his entire body cramps up. It looks extremely painful, so we've been giving him extra painkiller.

In other updating news, my hair is FINALLY getting to the length I forbade my hairdresser to cut above. I told her not to cut anything above my ears, and oh, I pantomimed, and repeated myself like three times to make sure she understood. And then she had me take off my glasses, and while I was blind she cut the entire top of my hair to be like 1 inch long (NOT EXAGGERATING!).

I cried myself to sleep over it for weeks, and have spent months embarrassed to exist, and I hate looking in the mirror, and I am so upset that I will have to forbid my child from seeing pictures of me and him together from this period in our lives, BUT at last the top of my hair is ALMOST to the point where it touches my ears. It's only been, oh, months and months. Three months. Thirteen weeks. Thirteen weeks of torture.

But the top is almost to where it was before it was sliced by an incompetent hairdresser. And in the meantime I have taken a pledge to not cut my hair for at least a year (besides trims).

Hope your lives are going well!

hair explanation

First, thank you to everyone who has seen my horrific new 'do and not said anything. I really appreciate it.

Here is the tale of how it happened.

I went to an English-speaking hairdresser with clear expectations which I articulated verbally and with a picture. One of the things I specifically asked for was NOT TO CUT ANYTHING ABOVE MY EARS PERIOD. NOTHING. NO. THING.

So of course then she, you know, cut my hair such that I have hair literally less than an inch and a half long on the top of my head. Seriously. In real life.

Pretty much, let's just say that she did everything I specifically said NOT TO DO and did nothing that I actually ASKED FOR.

So that's why my hair is currently reminiscent of a dead octopus residing on my head. I swear to you that I did not ask for it. I cannot tell you how many tears I have cried over it (and yes, I did feel ridiculous the whole time. At least I feel ridiculous for how shallow I am).

It's not that I feel embarrassed leaving the house with this hair--it's that I feel embarrassed existing with this foul mop. I am embarrassed at all times over this hair, even when there is not another soul in the room to judge. Because I have to judge myself over this awful, awful hair. The other night I woke up in the middle of the night just heartbroken over it. But I have no choice now but to let it grow out.

This is valuable because it is teaching me not to automatically judge people with terrible, horrifically foul hair cuts. It can happen to anybody. Sometimes the hairdresser just doesn't even leave enough hair to let you actually fix the cut. Sometimes you're just stuck.

So anyway, that's the situation. If you run out of things to pray for you can pray for my freakishly foul haircut to grow out quickly. And please remember: I'm really not into tacky foul haircuts. Seriously. It was all a mistake.

:^(

nostalgia.

AHHHH I just got another hair cut today and I have mixed feelings! Slash, it's the kind of hair cut I normally hate on everyone and now it is MINE!!! AH!! Looking for ways to fix it. Oh man. Oh, noes.

I hated my last hair cut, secretly, but now I feel just very sad that I tried to get it fixed and now it's what it is. :^(

It's making my soul frowny but I just have to tell myself, it will grow.

Maybe this is because just the other day I prayed for help being more humble. Isn't that an awful thought??

This is a post to just commemorate that one time that I was actually hot, and had a figure but one inch off Marilyn Monroe's, and could run five miles in one go, and dated so much I basically never needed to buy groceries. THOSE DAYS EXISTED!!!! You would never know if you looked at me now, but they TOTALLY DID!!!!!

i used to have a really great figure one time (picture taken about 4 months before I met Carl)


i had long, shiny curly hair one time



i could fit into pretty dresses once



:^(

Remind me not to cut my hair again for like two years, kthx.