Esme Hair Bun

 She asked me to do her hair in a 'ball', like a style - like her friend was telling her about, a ball at the back of her head.  I looked at a Youtube video and came out with this - which of course did not last the day...

 But, she was happy - and I did it again this morning.  She said I take a lot of pictures of her so when she grows up and goes far away I can look at the pictures and remember her.  Wow... and I reminded her that she would maybe want to see the pictures too, to remember what things were like when she was six... what her dogs were like, what her house was like, what she looked like...

I have a flu/sinus thing going on, and have been down since yesterday morning -- maybe really since we got back from the Open House on Monday... I remember in the store before hand I was seeing stars here and there out the sides of my eyes.. I should have known I was about to come down and taken precautions.

Drinking lots, fighting the fever and hoping I can go to work tomorrow... took today off, as it was not going to happen at all 6 am freight shift with body aches, running nose and fever... nope.

bit

Esme is washed and hair detangled and braided and in decent clothes off to school... and I am off to work for my closing shift. I hope she has fun and comes back happy from school. She says all the kids and ladies love her there and she has to rescue the kids from the fighting men (kick, punch, cheer) and there is a blue beaver with hearts in its eyes that is going in her backpack (imaginary) and she is going to bring him to school to see everything. And she is mad at me because brushing her hair was such a trial - it was so tangled. She would not sit still for anything and was apt to run around the room and/or play dead at different intervals. But, it is finished - and she looks like she actually has straight hair again!

Off to pack a lunch and get everything ready for my work. I feel like I've already pulled a shift in the cleaning industry giving that bath and hair brushing!

It is my big brother's birthday today, as well - he is in Minnesota.

Baby's Blast to the Past

I can hardly believe Esme was ever this tiny and wrinkly.


These are at just a few days old, her eyes were a very dark blue then.


And at eight months
eyes lightened up, and so did the hair


And at sixteen months
still medium blue/gray eyes and much longer blondish hair