Nicky on March 5th, 2010

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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Nicky on February 20th, 2010

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 [...]

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Nicky on February 5th, 2010

Sugar planned her hair style this week - she asked for a braid to come down to her nose!
 
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 [...]

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Nicky on January 10th, 2010

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 [...]

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Nicky on January 3rd, 2010

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, [...]

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Nicky on December 5th, 2009

My first crack at wedding veil braids.  Turned out decently!

The wreaths the girls made at home from some reused tissue paper.  Cute, eh?

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Nicky on November 18th, 2009

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 [...]

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Nicky on November 14th, 2009

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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Nicky on November 4th, 2009

  
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 [...]

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Nicky on October 29th, 2009

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

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Nicky on October 19th, 2009

The week+ before our trip to Calgary was eventful. First of all we went to our first Moon Festival,the Chinese Thanksgiving equivalent, hosted by our friends who have a little daughter from China. 
Following the fall theme, we had to get our RV ready for the winter, and my Dad was in town to give us [...]

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Nicky on October 14th, 2009

One of the most intimidating things I found about being a prospective adoptive parent (fondly known as PAPs,) was a hair and skin regime for my kids.  How do you know what to pick? Especially when their skin and hair are so different from yours…
Well, everybody has their favourites, and I hope you parents out [...]

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Nicky on October 8th, 2009

But honestly, it’s not last week.  Hew, boy! I am falling behind.  But enjoy them anyway.

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Nicky on September 28th, 2009

We’ve been learnng colours all week and one of the pieces of the pie was making homemade playdough.  The girls got to choose the colours, and as they were playing I constantly reminded them about which colour was which.  Daddy also did a day of colours: going through the colour book, finding things in the [...]

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Nicky on September 21st, 2009

We had a quieter week - which is good because I have bronchitis (the nasty cold I caught on the plane home that just got worse and worse…) and Jrock is suffering from a nasty cough too.  We take turns sleeping on the sofa because if one person isn’t coughing like crazy the other one [...]

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