He Walks!

I think the video speaks for itself. Pay no attention to the woman in the background saying random things to the children. By the way, he likes to clap for himself. He's very proud.

The boys say, "Yay football!"

More importantly...

Jackson took 3 steps on his own yesterday. No, Mom, I didn't get it on film. He was happy and clapped for himself as we all clapped for him. Now, he's been asleep for almost 2 hours. I guess the Nursery at church kicked his little butt this morning. He fell asleep in the car on the way home, didn't awake when I dumped him in the crib and he's still snoring. Quick, gotta go clean something. Out.

Musings...

So, I have a love/hate relationship with my hair. I love how much hair I have. I have a few friends that are already thinning in patches and I feel lucky that that's not me. However, I also hate how much hair I have. It takes forever to dry it - which was a pain when it was straight but now it's torture since it's gone wavy. Back story: I was the girl with the long, board-straight hair all through high school. It was so long and straight that Senior year, my friend Julie, used a ruler as a guide and cut 6 inches off of it which still left it hanging between my shoulder blades. I cut it off in college (don't we all?), grew it back out again for my wedding (what is it with girls wanting long hair for the marriage?) and cut it progressively shorter until it was boy-short when Emma was born.

Since Emma, I've grown in back out again to the length it attained in summer 2007 when we moved to Tally. Then, I cut my hair off short because of the heat here. But, this has presented me with a dilemma. After Isabelle was born, I discovered that my hair was wavy. 2 different stylists have assured me that this is normal: apparently, with hormonal changes come hair changes. In cutting it short, I have flirted with wearing it wavy but I have a problem. When I wear my hair wavy, I worry about it ALL DAY LONG. I don't think it's wavy enough or that some of it's wavy and some of it's gross. If it's not humid, it sags. If it's too humid, it's frizzy. I now see what Nicole and Jess were complaining about all those years. I began wearing it wavy because it was faster than drying it, not really because I thought it looked good. Although, using some gel and scrunching makes it look WAY better than if I don't fix it. Then it looks like I had a really bad crimping iron accident.

Recently, I've bit the bullet and started straightening it. That adds about 15 minutes to my prep time in the morning and you all know how much I like to sleep. But, I feel so much better about my appearance when it's straight. Maybe it's because I was a straight-haired girl for so long? I don't understand it. And now I'm considering growing it out long again so I can ponytail (right, Gina?) or cutting it off really really short again. What is wrong with me??