My Little Curly Q's

In a blog that has since been unrecoverable, I had a post on the curly q's of our Baby G and how cute they were a top of her then little head. Today I am typing on the fact that we dont just have 1 child with swirls of sweetness, but TWO kiddos with curls!

But I will back it up to the best of my ability on what I do remember regarding Baby G's hair raising post.

When Baby G was born she had a light downy of hair coloured in red, and upon further inspection you would see swirls. Those swirls eventually grew into curls once her hair finally began to come in and cover her round little cherub head. 

 

 Its been a learning curve on how to keep them swirly do's ... well swirly! They frizz so easily when she sleeps on them and often times wakes up looking like Albert Einstein... Hair all wild and in a mess. I continue to learn the proper caring and "feeding" if you will of curly hair, for instance I dont wash her hair but now 2 times a week and I make sure I am using gentle baby shampoo.. and when I dry her hair after Tub Tub Time as we say in our household..I make sure to gently squeeze with the towel and not jostle the hair, then I apply coconut oil to her scalp and ends.. especially since we have hard well water and it makes our hair and skin a little more susceptible to drying out. So far its been helping.

 So having one child on the homestead with cute ringlets of curls, just wasnt enough.. Nope the LoRd would have it, that we needed 2 babies with swirly do's! Thats right when my husband and I had our second together, little did we know when Tater Tots hair would actually grow in to notice a difference, he too would have them same little curly q's as his sister. 

The same hair care rules apply to him, wash maybe twice a week, gentle squeeze drying and lather the coconut oil to preserve those strawberry blonde locks of his.

As I look at how much my two youngest stand out with their curls, I think on the fact how interesting genetics really is. I mean you have here two adult parents with straight hair, My husbands is brownish with red in his beard ect, I on the other hand, growing up had very strawberry blonde hair and as I have grown older it has become more of a darker red, would think maybe our children would have straight hair.. and either one of our hair colourings. But if you go outside our little molecule family you will see that really, Greg and I are the Odd ones of our individual respective families. Gregs brother and a majority of his family are curly, my side is the same as well. So it was really just a guesstimate that our kids had a 70% chance of having Curly or wavy hair than lets say a 30% straight, since curly/wavy runs dominate in the family genes. Hair colour could have been the same.. but I like to think that the LoRd answered a prayer when I prayed for (at least when I was pregnant with Baby G) one little red head, with big beautiful eyes.. And he granted me that.. and it appears Double Blessed.. For I have TWO strawberry blondes with big beautiful blue eyes.