This Is Us

  Lydia started cheerleading this summer. She loves it so much! She loves to do gymnastic 🤸🏻‍♀️ type things all the time, but gymnastics is expensive and we couldn’t really find anything close to our house. When we found out she could do cheer and it wasn’t that expensive, we were so happy. She has to have her hair up for practices. So here is one of the hair-do’s I did. I did an off set part. French braided the two sides a little. Put an elastic at the end of the braids to hold them. Pulled all her hair up into a ponytail. Made a hole in the ponytail and pulled her hair from the bottom up through the hole. It looked so cute!  

  When I was little my mom would braid mine and my sisters hair before bed. This kept it from getting tangled while we slept. It also made our hair “crimped”. Yes, I have naturally curly hair 👩🏻‍🦱, but it wasn’t curly until I was in I think about kindergarten and then it went curly and was so hard to keep from getting tangled. So when Brichette was younger, and even sometimes now, I would braid her hair after her bath or shower and it wouldn’t be so hard to brush in the mornings. Now with Lydia, even though her hair is curly, I braid it every night before bed. In the mornings we take the braid (or braids) out and just run my fingers through it. If she wants it curly, we get it wet and put a little coconut oil in it. It helps so much with brushing their hair in the mornings, especially before school.  Most nights we just do one braid, but sometimes we do two or three, which makes the “crimp” smaller. This is what it looks like from one braid.