Pictures... FINALLY!!!!

This is me after six months of sisterlocks. Can you believe it? This was taken this morning while waiting for my mother to arrive for our outing. I feel like I've really grown in these. I did a braid and curl set last night and I'm happy to say that it looked good to me this morning. This was a way to battle the "little balls" that have been driving me crazy lately. I wouldn't trade my hair for anything though. I love this process. I know that it's locking and that soon, I'll be able to stop braiding and banding! Anyways, here are a few more photos so that you all can see the progression.
This photo is of me at a little over 4 months. My hair is getting fuller and It's growing so what can I say? I'm so happy!!! I just thought I was too cute in this photo.

This other photo was taken a month before the March photo. See I did take photos, I was just too lazy to update my blog! Well I don't know what was going on in this picture. I thought I was cute here too, but my hair is doing some funky stack thing. I just wanted to show the difference in each month. I was just over 3 months in this one. For some reason I don't think I took any photos in April. I think the only one I did take, it was with my sister and her husband at my house and it was after a braid and band session. I hadn't finished separating my locks yet. Oh well.

I'm just in awe of the change in just a couple of months. My locks have grown a little longer every month, a little thicker and just more of what I wanted to see at this point. I did think that I would be locked by this point, but everyone's hair is different. Though my hair is definitely kinky, it's also soft so it will take me a little longer before it's all finished locking. I think it's nearly settled though. I'm just hoping to get little buds on most of the top and I'll be in business. My edges have stopped slipping between retightenings so that's a good sign. I just want to be able to learn how to retighten my own hair before we move. I think where we're going there aren't any sisterlocks consultants or anyone for that matter who specializes in cultivated locks so I'm going to have to do it myself and make appointments with Dana and Larry when I come back to visit. Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed my updates. I'll try to be more active in the blog, I promise. I just had to get over a little hump.

I am sooooo lazy!!

I thought that I would have updated with photos by now, but I haven't. I've taken photos over the last couple of months, but no updates. I've been a bit out of the loop lately. For my regular life update, I've completed my doula training and my lactation consultant course as well. I'm currently interning at the best privately owned lactation center in the area and get to see all sorts of babies and mothers every day! It's wonderful to feel so fulfilled with what you're doing. Jeff is currently looking for a job in our dream spot Vermont where we will be building our Enertia home (http://www.enertia.com). Our favorite is the Brandywine. We're building a solar home complete with photovoltaic and solarthermal panels. We're excited. That is if Jeff can get a job there we can move and make this a reality sooner. We'll see.

On to hair. Like I said before, I have photos. I will post them. Yeah, right. I've been promising photos forever and I still havne't produced. I've been just really busy lately, but I will post photos. I've just celebrated my 6 month sisterlocks anniversary and I have little buds everywhere. Mostly on the back of my head, but they're there. I'm starting to get a little frustrated with them though. You all may have read my post about the little hanging balls driving me nuts. They are. I think I want to pull them off, but I haven't and I won't since Dana told me not to. Other than that, I love my hair. I find that it has more of a bounce. Especially when I do my little braid/curl out ala Chi Chi. It's great. I get a great deal of body with that set. Yes, I'm a bit guilty of the "whitegirl" disease since it's starting to move more. I love it. Anyways, I've been not too good to you guys about keeping up with blogging and also with photos so I'll see what I can do.