These photos are from early winter 2006. K & O were about 1.5 years old then and man!–they were a handful (two handfuls). I love to see pictures of them from before their locs! These pictures were from just before we dredded the boys’ hair. I just loved those fuzzy heads. But we were going through a terrible phase then, in part related to hair… the boys were absolutely unstoppably crazy about throwing food, smashing food, and… rubbing food into their hair. It was awful! We tried everything to stop it but the two of them just thought it was the funnest and funniest thing on earth. Every meal was a horror. I literally cried in frustration, at the table, many-a-meal. Meanwhile they’d be laughing their tushes off getting the biggest kick out of each other. Kicking their feet in their highchairs and slamming their hands on the table in hysteria/mania/ecstasy with the fun of it all. Braydon and I were at our wits end with it. The hair, especially, was a terrible aspect of that phase— they’d rub/smash/grind bits of food, handfuls of cereal, fistfuls of yogurt, bowls of pasta, ETC. into their hair. You can just imagine what a nightmare this was to deal with (especially all of you mom’s of black kids out there– you know this was a horrible nightmare of a phase to go through with these two crazy boys). Somehow we all survived to tell the story. But if you click to enlarge the photos you’ll see lots of foodstuff in their hair. đŸ˜‰
