Hair

Hannah has gorgeous red hair. When she was a baby and I pushed her and her twin brother in the big double pram I sometimes felt a bit sorry for her brother who has brown hair like me. It's always a bit of circus going out with twins and lots of people would peer in to see if there were twins in there. Almost invariably one of their first comments would be on Hannah's red hair. I quickly discovered that there is a 'club' of us who just LOVE red hair and see it everywhere. These people would comment with great enthusiasm on her beautiful red hair. Then they'd glance at her brother and say something about his size or his chubby cheeks ! Poor baby....

Before she started school she had a fringe...

...and in honour of her starting 'big school' we got her hair cut in this bob. She loved it! At some stage during kindy though the class was shown a movie called CLoudy WIth a Chance of Meatballs - an unremarkable film if you ask me but Hannah loved it...and so for a long time she would hold her fringe up and tell me she wanted her air to be 'like cloudy with a chance of meatballs'....aka no fringe...

So here she is in Venice - no fringe... Then it suited me to keep her hair long - one of her dance concerts preferring her hair in a bun and the other with a braid...it gave us a bit of flexibility.

Then at the start of the new school year, as she heads into Year 2 it was time for the bob again... this one without the fringe as per Hannah's request

When we were waiting for her brother's hair to be cut too - Hannah turns to me int he hairdressers and tells me she wants to work there when she grows up. "I be a hairdresser, Mummy, I grow up". It made me smile and feel so proud... now to keep a lookout for an openminded hairdresser who will give her a chance...it might happen if she still wants it to when she is older...she might cut hair or she might wash hair, make tea and sweep the floor - but how cool would either job be? In the thick of it...working in her community, somewhere that will stimulate her creativity...another dream for her to dream on...

And so the experiments continue. She is hampered by the fact that her mother has NO IDEA! but her current hair fashion statements involve the use of clips on the top and yesterday she came to me with 3 hairbands, two blue and one burgundy - and directed me to tie her hair back in three with the burgundy in the centre....I probably didn't do it justice but I tried...lol