Ponytails

For the past two days K & O (mostly initiated by K) have been insisting on wearing their hair in ponytails. My theory is that now that they’re back at school they’re seeing all these cute girls with cutie hair (ponytails, braids, barretts, ribbons, etc.) and they want all that cutie stuff too. And really, why not? Even though no other boys they know wear their hair like this, they seem to still have no clue whatsoever that this would not be within the range of ‘normal’ for boys their age in mainstream society. And I, for one, am not going to be the one to alert them to that— at least not anytime soon. And I’m not going to tell them they shouldn’t or can’t wear their hair this way. At least not now. We don’t go out of our way to encourage this kind of thing, but we don’t discourage it either. And luckily (luckily luckily luckily) K & O go to a school where everyone there seems to genuinely accept and embrace their ponytails as if this were within the range of ‘normal.’ People don’t make a huge commotion of it in a positive or a negative way. That’s one of the things I love about their school– as long as you’re kind and careful (truly full of care) then you’re loved and embraced no matter who you are and nobody is really ever singled out for any reason one way or another. I don’t know what K & O will think of these photos when they’re 18 years old, 6 feet tall, 250 pounds. But that’s not going to stop us from the ponytail up-do’s for the time being. We do, however, draw the line at “sparkle shoes” (they’d do just about anything right now for two pair of sparkly glittery pink shoes with sequins all over them). Actually, I should say, we did draw the line at sparkle shoes (when they first were drooling over them in the shoe store when we went to buy school shoes a couple of weeks ago). I thought they’d forget about them once we got home. But they’re still bringing it up almost daily and I’m starting to maybe be caving into the pressure. I’m not going to make a special trip to the shoe store, but hypothetically if we just happened to come across two pair of cheap sparkle shoes sometime soon… I think it might be really hard for me to not spring for them. Don’t worry… I promise, if it happens, I’ll post a photo.