I was worried as summer approached - what hair could I do that would stand up to the sun, days at the beach, sprinklers, etc?
Well, I decided that the swimming would just happen, and not to worry. But I did start making their braids smaller and using more of my secret hair elixer. (Secret told [...]
I’m finally starting to do smaller braids on the girls’ heads - it just didn’t seem worth it when they used to go through a head of braids in a week! but now that it’s lastly two weeks, it makes it more worthwhile to sit for almost two Disney movies!
I tried something new with Spice [...]
Our Okanagan Families With Children From Africa group had our second Happy Hair Hour last week - what fun! Thanks so much to N for hosting. There were 7 of us ladies… most with kids from Ethiopia and Swaziland, and one Ethiopian lady. The agenda - eat baked camembert, drink wine, be merry, and talk [...]
So they lasted just over three weeks. Then I couldn’t stand it anymore, because their foreheads were getting fuzzy.
Sugar - two weeks in.
Sugar actually asked a few days ago to take the yarn extensions out - she wanted “new braids” - but I said “four more sleeps”… with, of course, the devious intention of stretching [...]
For the first time I tried yarn extensions yesterday on [edit:Spice! oops - wrote the wrong pseudonym!] Yikes - two and a half Disney movies long!!!! ehhh!!! She did sit still the whole time, though. People ask me how they do that - the trick is, it’s the only time they watch TV. So they [...]
I’m not a beads super-fan, but they did turn out pretty good this week. You learn things from other moms all the time… and I learned if you weight the braids down with more beads, they tend to stay straight and last longer. Who’da thunk…
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It’s funny how identical (as far as we know) twins can have such different face shapes. Added to the usual difference, Sugar just shot up another centimetre (yes, that’s added tot he two inches in Dec/Jan!) and Spice is currently sporting a pre–shooting-up rounder face.
Anyway, Sugar always looks fresh and best with her hair back [...]
Sugar planned her hair style this week - she asked for a braid to come down to her nose!
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She really likes it when they come down near her face, but I’m not that keen on it. So this was the compromise~ Meanwhile, the veil braids on Spice looked great. 40 minutes record on those puppies [...]
He may be a rooky, but he did a great job!!!
Jrock helped me do hair for the first time today - yipee! He did twists all over Sugar’s head. No braiding experience required, right? After the initial part he was all on his own. It cut the braiding time almost in half, which was so [...]
I know how much people like me posting pics of the girls’ hair - alas! We have no camera to speak of right now. We lost our charger a month ago, the 1st replacement charger didn’t work and now we’re waiting for our second Ebay package to arrive in the mail. But for your viewing pleasure, [...]
My first crack at wedding veil braids. Turned out decently!
The wreaths the girls made at home from some reused tissue paper. Cute, eh?
The girls have really grown since we got them - in size, and in nature. They are up to a 7 shoe size, and almost always size three tops… but the pants! Wow, there’s a trouble. They broke through the knees of three pairs of jeans, leaving us with two decent pairs. So we went jeans [...]
And it’s time for fall activities - hikes, cracking nuts, crunching leaves, making birdfeeders, and getting the most of sunny days before the winter rolls in.
Enjoy the pictures from the last week or so.
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We did hair yesterday and I thought I would share, since I’ve never done these styles before. Sugar has flat twists - which were really quite easy to do. It’s a common hairstyle seen in Ethiopia, and even in their Oromo tribe, which is neat. Spice has twists too - apparently you call them Senegalese [...]
You can tell the girls are getting their braids out either that day or the next if you see photos of them wearing a hat! So here is one hair day to another - two weeks later though
