Is there a trick to getting your three year old girl to wash her hair without it turning in to the most ridiculous drama EVERY. SINGLE. WEEK???
I swear she used to enjoy it, but those memories are now so faded that I’m questioning if they are even real?!
I feel like we have tried everything. This week really was the most outrageous so far.
In all fairness, I actually can’t complain too much, as we always wash her hair on a Monday night, because it is a night when we are both here, so there’s two of us to wrangle her. This was the way we did it, even before Luna was born. But I’m sure that was more for the hair dryer part. The washing itself has never been this bad. So because we do it on a night when Luke is home… I actually do not help with the bath time. I’m running around making beds and putting clothes away as if it is an Olympic sport.
I am chief hair brusher, and dryer.
We have these hilarious foam guards that clip around Aurora’s head, so she looks like one of the baby oysters in Alice in Wonderland, to stop the water going in her eyes. She still freaks out that water goes in her eyes. She helps to wash Luna’s hair beforehand, and enjoys that, but that doesn’t seem to help. Luke has even got her to wash his hair over the bath, and then do hers – it doesn’t help. She squeezes the shampoo and conditioner, so she feels like she’s helping. That doesn’t seem to help. We’ve tried standing up. We’ve tried sitting down. We’ve offered the shower. We use a jug. I didn’t think we had anything left to offer, until this week when I could hear that Luke offered to do it over the sink. Resourceful, yes, and she did finally accept… But she then wanted to have her entire ‘bath’ in the sink. Good lord.
The dramatics with the hair brushing and drying are just as bad. I have had to bribe her with a pixel drawing game on my phone (she calls it ‘buttons’) and I’m not even ashamed to admit it. Even then, the screams of pain when I haven’t even put the brush on her hair yet. Or the hairdryer should, God forbid, blow a strand of hair forward on to her face.
I’m just seeking confirmation that either every girl goes through this, and/or there is an end?!
Will it get worse before it gets better?
It seems to be amplifying and I’m a little over it now.
I had such a wonderful weekend back in Newbury. Seeing my gorgeous friends and family, it was such good soul food and I need more of it!
Quite often I feel that during my drive to or from Newbury, with such a big chunk of time to think everything through, I make some monumental decisions. This time was no different. I decided that I would like to do an Interior Design course. Everything about Interior Design makes me happy. From the shows I watch on TV, to my Ideal Home magazine subscription. I love thinking up decorating ideas for our home (these ideas usually stay as just that, for financial reasons, but it’s the ideas that are important!) It’s almost shocking that I haven’t had this thought sooner, but I obviously wasn’t meant to. Now is the right time.
So I am on the hunt for an online course, that is relatively affordable! If anyone has any hints, tips or recommendations, then PLEASE send them my way as I’m not totally sure where to start and I don’t want to sign up to something that doesn’t deliver everything it promises.
I’m putting it on here so that it forces me to follow through with the idea. This is my new tactic with goals I wish to achieve. Tell as many people as I can, because then if I don’t fulfil what I have set out to, I have nowhere to hide.
Just imagine it though, designing the home, building the furniture, and then organising all the belongings. That is heaven to me.
Aurora has been really upset going into Pre School the last few times, and it is really heart-breaking. She only started going in January, and only does 3 half days a week, but she has always been so carefree and barely turned to say goodbye to me at the gate, whereas now she is crying every time that she wants to stay at home and doesn’t want to go in. I shall see how tomorrow afternoon goes, but I really hope that it was just a little blip, and she will go back to normal again soon. I’m sure the reason is because I had a meeting with her teacher the other week and Aurora and I both thought it was going to be in her class room. So when I was told to go and check in at reception, I explained that I just had to go through a different door and then I’d be round. Only once I had signed in, her teacher came and met me, and we went into an office. Obviously...! Of course our meeting wasn’t going to be in the class room with all the children there. I can see that now, I don’t know why I had thought otherwise. So, I never went round to her class, and the thought of her waiting and watching the door, for 3 hours, makes me sad. Since then she has asked me to come in every time, and doesn’t seem to understand that I can’t. Poor little thing.
Her teacher said that she is still very quiet, which I really struggle to believe as she is far from that at home. She definitely likes her quiet moments, as do I, but the rest of the time she is a nutter. I just hope that she is enjoying it when she is there. She has started mentioning more of the children’s names over the past couple of weeks, which is nice, as it had only ever been ‘Little Boy Daniel’ that she had spoken about before that.
Luna is still waking 4 times most nights but is coming on leaps and bounds in the daytime. She suddenly looks a lot older, Luke thought she had aged in the 2 days I had been in Newbury! She is standing independently as often as she can and taking 2 or 3 steps in a row. She is so chuffed with herself; her little toothy smile fills my heart with so much joy.
Aurora and Luna have really started ‘playing’ together more over the last week or so. Aurora loves running around and making Luna giggle. She has also started giving her lots of random cuddles and kisses and asking to hold her all the time. I’m not sure why she is wanting to do it more now when Luna is almost as long as she is, and not when she was a little baby, but each to their own. Maybe the addition of their cousin Isla, and a few of our friends babies has made her feel a little maternal. Who knows. Whatever the reason, it is incredibly cute, and beats headbutting her any day, so I’ll take it as a win!
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