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June 28, 2001
Claire has a lot of hair. Tons. In fact, so much that I’m wavering in my stand to leave it alone. Chad is stalwartly against getting it cut. He especially loathes bangs. I’m not sure why he has such a bangs aversion, but he does. I agree with him that from a maintenance standpoint, no bangs are a better route. If we cut bangs, then we have to keep getting them cut every so often. My problem with the whole hair thing is that her lovely locks constantly blind her.
She starts the day with a little plastic barrette in her hair to keep the front of it out of her face. Some days this lasts longer than others, but by noon the clip is usually lost in the NeverNeverland of the living room. Once she discovers that it’s there, she can’t stop fooling with it until she pulls it out. A large clump of her hair usually comes out with it when she removes it herself. I detest that! Sometimes I’ll use a little rubber band to pull it back. She hates these. I don’t know why. Rubber bands, the coated kind, at least don’t grab and pull out as much hair when she removes it. I really don’t care if she looks all scraggly from day to day, but it would be nice if she could see!
You can see from the picture (hopefully it gets posted!), that she’s got quite a bit. This picture was taken on her first birthday. It’s even longer now. The back is very long. It comes down past her shoulders when it’s pulled straight down. It’s curly though, so it doesn’t look that long. I’m really wishing that it would either get a bit longer so that it would tuck behind her ear or that we would get it cut. I’ll probably tough it out a month or so and see how it is.
In other news, Claire is a scream. Literally. She does a screaming/screeching thing all the time. At first, I thought there was something wrong when she did it. I would hear her and look to see what was wrong. Mostly, there wasn’t anything. I guess she discovered that she could make this really loud cool noise, so she practices it daily. Most of the screeching is when she’s sitting playing with something by herself. It still startles me though. Last night I dropped a dish and trotted to see what she was doing. Luckily, the dish didn’t break!
Claire is lucky that her mommy has been able to keep things pretty much together. We’ve, well I say ‘we’, been planning a party. Really, I’ve been trying rather unsuccessfully to plan a party. The day was originally scheduled for July 4th. Alas! I was unable to get everything together in time. So, we’ve rescheduled our wedding for July 29th. Hopefully this date sticks. It’s awfully hard to try to put a wedding together in a short time. I didn’t think it was that big a deal when I got married the first time, even though it was a much bigger affair. I guess that’s because I had six months, not six weeks to do it. So far I have a dress and shoes. Chad needs a new shirt. We’ve tentatively settled on a location. Since the group will be small, we’re thinking of having a dinner wedding at the restaurant where Chad and I had our first date. We’ve written the ceremony. We need an officiant, to send out the invitations, a few flowers and a cake. The flower girl part is all taken care of! LOL!
We’ll keep you posted on the life and times of Claire and her silly Mommy (and Daddy).
-Kelly and Claire
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