I’m just glad her hair is finally long enough to do stuff like this.  She was pretty much bald / peach fuzzy her entire first year, then it just started growing out a little bit during her second year and by Halloween of that year we could *just* put in itty bitty piggy tails.  Those were so cute, but she wouldn’t leave them in.

Now her hair is long enough that most of it can go into piggy tails – but not quite all, some from the front and the very bottom of her head still isn’t long enough to reach.  I am hoping as she ages her hair will start growing faster, like mine.  I dyed my hair light red two weeks ago, (the color on the box is actually strawberry blonde, but my hair is dark so it doesn’t turn out like the color on the box), and already I have dark roots that are probably about 1/16″ long.  Suffice to say, Easter 2007 I had my hair cut to above my shoulders, and have not trimmed it since, and it is already back half-way down my back again.

Anyway.  It seems like it has taken forever but we can actually start doing stuff with her hair, and thankfully she is also wanting to let me do stuff with her hair, whereas before she’d have any pony or pig tails or barrettes out within an hour.  This is one part of her growing up that I like!  Now I just have to hope that she got at least a little bit of body, wave or slight curl to her hair from her dad, because my hair is stick straight and I hate it.  Right now her hair is mostly straight but flips up at the ends, so I can still have some hope…