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Avery's How To's - How to Rock a Mohawk

As you all know Miss A has a number of different hairstyles, this new one was a request:

Step 1: Pull all the hair back while strumming your air guitar

Step 2. Turn to the side and shake it all around!

Step 3. And rock on like a rock star!

**This has been a message from Avery's How-Tos and is sponsored by Avery**

I Love My Hair

While watching Sesame Street with Avery we saw this video about a girl with very curly hair who has many different styles, just like Avery. It's called, "I Love My Hair." And we hope and encourage Miss A to love her hair because it's beautiful and so is she!

What do you think of the video?? What's your favorite hair style?

Just Like Mommy

I love Avery's curls, in fact I'd always dreamed about having daughters with curly hair and as you know, I definitely got my wish! For Avery's Halloween costume we wanted to make her hair temporarily straight, so I french braided her hair the night before, then took it out and combed it, which helped and made it a lot less curly for our straightening process.

Here's the hair we started with:

A little more progress, luckily Avery is great at holding still for me to do her hair.

A little sass from behind :)

And the finished product, a happy little girl that looks just like momma and perfect for Halloween, but we still love her curly hair!

The Many Styles

The Many Styles of Avery B. Well not so much her styles but the styles of her hair. I used to pray that her short somewhat wavy hair would be long enough for me to do something with it and now that it's not a mini-fro anymore, actually it's an entity of it's own sometimes, I can do more with it.

Here, ladies and gentlemen, are the Many Styles of Avery B.....

The side puff

The multi-braid

The double shimmy shimmy Coco Puffs

The "I-just-woke-up" Fro

The side braid-half up

Mom's too tired to do my hair so I'll wear a hat instead

The braided beauty

We hope you've enjoyed the viewing of the Avery's styles and plan on having more to come with Avery and probably once little Colbie has long enough hair her too!

The Fro

Is taking over!! I combed Avery's hair out after a day's worth of braid (plaits) and brushed it out and wowzers it is getting really really really really, (did I say really?) long, as you can tell. Even with it combed out it's actually still a little longer than that when it's pulled straight.

Now I'm just imagining what kind of hair my next baby will have.....hmmm....

Tell me about your funniest kids hair moment.

Avery's New Do

Joel and I had been talking about getting Avery's lovely locks trimmed and hadn't picked a date to go. So, yesterday as a spur-of-the-moment trip we decided we'd go get the "fro" tamed.

I had been referred to Doolittles, Crewcuts and Pigtails and Snip-its but didn't know where to go. With Avery's hair being above average I was nervous that we'd find someone who knew how to cut curly hair. Each time I called a salon they would tell me all of their stylists could cut curly hair, and maybe they could, but that's not what I wanted to hear. I wanted names, names I tell ya!!

So I made up my mind and decided we'd try out Snip-Its in Huntersville (they're a chain too.) As we walked into the Wonka/Seussish salon I think we were all pretty enamoured. We got there just in time to see LaMonica (and Snips too.)

Meet Snips, the Salon "mascot" if you will. Avery said, "He's not real," in an effort to convince herself that he wasn't going to chase her around the room.

Avery did a great job sitting still while she got her locks clipped. She watched a few movies, LaMonica kept her engaged, and she even got a yummy watermelon sucker.

Typically at Snip-Its the girls get an "extra" for free, often a braid and a couple of clips in their hair. So when the stylist asked if it was okay for Avery to have a couple of braids I was up for it. Little did I know that she was going to do all of Avery's hair. How sweet was that??? Avery loved her princess look that was topped off with three plastic butterfly clips.

It was totally worth the cost of going to a fun place. Avery loved it, we had a great experience and they even gave us Avery's hair clippings and a certificate for her first salon haircut. Each kid also gets a card they put in this fun machine and out pops a kids toy! How cool is that!! I think I may start getting my hair cut at Snip-its too!

We got a lot of great tips on how to care for her hair. Now if I could only learn how to braid Avery's hair we'd be set!

Snip, Snip

Avery's curly, twirly, locks have gotten a taste of some ultra-grow somehow because it seems like her hair, especially the sides are expanding with full force. When it got really wet she had long ringlets on the sides of her head. Not so cute if you ask momma. So for the first time ever (excluding a few baby locks for her baby book, and with help,) I cut her hair.

So after much apprehension about whether to trim or get her hair professionally cut one of my friends who has a daughter with ultra curly hair offered to help me trim it. I took her up on the offer and bought a pair of cutting sheers.

Now don't get me wrong, I still was nervous to the morning I went over to their house to make the first cut. But I figured worst case scenario it would grow back.

Once we got to the "Chop Factory" aka Natasha's house, we put Avery in the highchair figuring the combination of TV cartoons and the restraint of the highchair would hopefully keep her still. I'm thinking this combo could actually work in several different situations just to give you moms a few ideas.

Here's the before hair-shaping picture:

We also bribed little missy with a sucker just in case. But she ended up doing a great job sitting still for us considering this was her first ever cut.

And here's the after, nicely rounded head picture. Now keep in mind we didn't chop all that much off, the extra water we used to spray it down also made her 'fro smaller. But all in all there was a good amount taken off to make it generally cleaner and a little easier to manage.

End result, happy momma, pretty girl!

All Picked Out

Here's Avery's crazy hair picked out after puffs! It's growing longer by the minute!!

The Awful, No Good, Horrible Hair Day

Winter + hat = Crazy hair. Need I say more???

Shimmy Shimmy Cocoa Puffs

Oh the wonderful things that my daughter's hair has afforded me. Lots of laughs when she wakes up from her nap looking like Einstein, grumbles (from me) when I'm trying to comb through the tangles, and countless Frankensteinian experiments with needless to say "interesting" products.

I've loved what I call Cocoa puffs forever, not the cereal, the hair! Since before I was married I thought they were adorable. It was just today, as I was searching for examples that I realized they're more commonly called Afro Puffs, either way, they're cute. This is what they look like full on:

We have a couple of very curly-haired girls in our mom's group and I figured once Avery got much older her hair would be able to create this fun coif. I guess I just thought her hair was too short.

Once again Avery's hair surprised me as I experimented yet again trying to put it in puffs I realized it was long enough to make some smaller pufflets. Here are some pictures of my work. I'm sure it'll become straighter and more perfected with time, so cut me some slack :)

I leave you with this song from the movie "Big."

Shimmy shimmy coco pop
Shimmy shimmy rock
Shimmy shimmy coco pop
Shimmy shimmy rock

I met a girlfriend
Named Triscuit
She said:
A Triscuits a biscuit

Ice cream
Soda pop
Vanilla on the top
Ooh shal-i-da

Walking down the street
Ten times a week
I meant it, I said it
I stole my Momma's credit

I'm cool
I'm hot
Sock you in the stomach...
Three more times (Repeat x3)...

Grease is the word!

Avery's hair is curly, very curly, beautiful, thick, and taking over the world!

I'm not sure if this is typical of biracial children, but Avery's hair started off pretty straight and very soft and thick, and then as she got "bald in back," the infamous 6 month rectangle bald spot things changed from there on.

As her hair grew back it was curlier and a little more coarse. Well, now that she's almost 20 months the crazy curls are slowly taking over. If her hair was a movie it'd be, "Invasion of the Rowdy Ringlets." I'm finding myself grasping for any tips, advice, or hair product that can help.

Since Avery's hair is a little dryer in some spots I got advice to start using a leave-in-conditioner and we've been using Johnson and Johnson and it smells great and tended to work pretty well. Her hair though started to get a little drier and frizz much easier.

I turned to a few friends with biracial and African American kids and enlisted them in my plight for a soft spiral solution. I got plenty of ideas several which we now implement. We use lots of conditioner in the tub and comb through with a wide toothed comb, and are still using the leave-in-conditioner in the mornings, but we've added something so new to me I'd never heard of it before just recently.

Let me introduce you to my new friend: Carrot Oil!

I don't know much about African American or even biracial hair and Avery helped me demonstrate this fact. The first time I applied the carrot oil in Avery's hair, I read the instructions which say to, "apply to the scalp and massage in." Now I don't know when the last time I could fully get to Avery's scalp was, so I did my best to apply all over.

I guess I was a little heavy handed and didn't realize that "oil" means "OIL!" Poor Avery was rockin' the Soul Glow look from Coming to America.

Here are a couple of Avery's before shots:

And After:
Now that we've been using the Carrot Oil I've learned to use a lot less, that oil doesn't mix with water even if it's a hair product, and that Avery really can let her Soul Glo, but can I???