Let’s Talk Babies

When I first found out I was pregnant I immediately started dreaming about a girl baby.  I somehow just knew that the little person inside of me was a little girl.  It turned out I was right  Those vivid pregnancy dreams of my little girl always involved lots of bows and pigtails and ponytails and beautiful wavy hair.  When Maya finally made her appearance into this world she came out bald.  Which was fine with me because I love me a bald little baby head.  However, she stayed bald, very bald, for a very long time.  She spent the first year and a half of her life with hair too short for even a little tiny bow.

It seemed like her hair would never start growing.  It just stayed really, really short.  I’m not a big fan of those headband thingys so there wasn’t much we could do hair accessory wise.  She wore a lot of hats.

Even when all decked out in a very girl outfit (think pink frilly dress) people would refer to her as a boy.  They took one look at her complete lack of hair and assumed she was a boy.

Then one day, when she was about a year and a half I looked at her hair and realized there may just be enough there for a little bow.  Sure enough, there was.  I was finally able to get one of those little, velcro bows in her hair.  It didn’t stay in long, but it felt like we were finally making some head way with this whole hair thing.

Slowly but surely her hair has been growing.

And this fall the most amazing thing happened.  Her hair was long enough for a ponytail, albeit a very tiny ponytail

And even tiny little pigtails!

My little girl still doesn’t really have that much hair considering she is almost 2 and a half.  I pretend not to notice those little girls in our swim class with hair half way down their backs.  Her ponytails are slowly getting a little longer and fuller.  She wears little bows and clippys almost every day now to keep the hair out of her eyes.

One of these days she’ll have crazy amounts of hair just like her mom and I’ll look back at these pictures and hardly remember what it was like when she had no hair.  For now we’ll just keep correcting people when they call her a boy or think she is only a year old because she’s tiny and doesn’t have much hair.

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