Pigtails!

Can you believe it's October already? Summer is just around the corner here, although we're still having lots of rain in between sunny days. Maya continues to go to daycare, and seems to be adjusting, as she no longer cries when Chris drops her off and picks her up. Whew. Hopefully the long-term psychological damage will be minimal :).

Anyway, thought I'd include this cute picture from yesterday's return home from daycare. Maya's hair is getting crazy long and curly, so it's often in her eyes, stuck to her face by the snot coming out of her nose, or caked with ketchup or whatever she happens to be eating that day. We manage by just sweeping her hair out her eyes and washing out the food everynight, but her carers at daycare take a different approach: pigtails. Obviously, they have more nimble fingers than we do, or they know how to hypnotize babies, because they manage to twist those impossibly small rubberbands around her ultra-fine hair. We can never get Maya to keep her head still long enough for us to get our clumsy fingers to create pigtails, and usually end up pulling out a few hairs and making her cry, so we stopped trying long ago.

Needless to say, the effect is quite cute, and perhaps is another reason why daycare isn't so bad afterall....