Hair

Been surfing the net for information on postpartum hair loss. Gross, I know. It just sounds like something that you get when you are old. "Postpartum." The term baffles my belief in my own age and the point that I've reached in life. I'm a mommy looking up postpartum hair loss on the Internet. Physically seeing those words makes it all hit home even more, but little things like that throughout my daily routine lately do that to me.

I've been told that after you have your baby, all that hair you cease to lose while you are pregnant suddenly decides to finally fall out. I had no idea it would be so crazy severe. I'm talking, I'm shocked I don't have bald spots all over my head already from pulling out clumps of it. My mom said that her hair was never the same after she had my brother and I- that it got very thin and fine. So, perhaps I'm needing to let go of pre-Mommy hair and accept my postpartum locks...eh. Nah.

So I went and got my first haircut since Jude was born today in an attempt to make myself feel better with what I've got to work with- which is still a lot considering I've got wicked thick hair (for now, my mom speculated...geez. Thanks!). I've worn it long and down my back for forever, but these days I don't have the time it takes to spend a half hour blow drying it and another 20 to flat iron it. It's pretty much impossible to do anything with a squirmy, fussy baby wanting your attention. He makes me realize just how little it matters if my hair is flat ironed anymore.

Taylor prefers long hair, as do I, so I had promised that I wouldn't cut it all off. I promised that I wouldn't pull a "mom-life crisis" and chop my hair all short because I have a baby now. NEVER. I see too many chicks doing this and it always disappoints me. Sure I'm in for more iron baby fist incidents, but that's what hair ties are for. I'll deal with it.

Jude's hair is starting to grow now and it has me wondering what color it will be. Right now it's growing in kind of like a Marine/Jarhead type style- really short around the sides and thicker and longer only on the very top of his head. I like to brush it back and give him what we call the "Chicken Hawk."

In other news, here are some pics from the week. I took Jude and Gretchen for a walk the other day and got to let Jude rock the sunglasses. There isn't a whole lot in this world that is cuter and more hilarious than a baby wearing sunglasses.



I found a great way to knock him out when he's fighting nap time. Reading Newsweek magazine to him had the Zzzzs going in about 10 minutes. I thought that the article on the downfall of Christian America was super interesting. I guess he didn't.