Seven Months

I've been MIA for awhile; busy with work, motherhood, authorhood and a zillion other things that are pulling on me, and so my child's blog has been left to languish on it's own.

His hair is growing beautifully. My routine remains the same: I'm washing twice a month and latching about once a month. As it's getting longer, there is more time in between latching cause I just like the thickness and fullness of his hair.

I am considering enrolling him in a private school in the fall. During the interview and tour, we were told that we would have to cut his hair because locs were not considered appropriate and went against the dress code. I think it's a testament to our commitment to locs, because both myself and my son are seriously considering whether this is the school for us, despite it's stellar reputation. Turns out, I was speaking to the wrong person and the dress code only states that his hair should not fall below his collar. We can do that.

Anyway, I have been taking pictures of his progression but I think I'll just post the most recent.

Four Months

We have been loc'ing for four months now and things are still progressing well. I had intended to take a couple pictures at mid-month to show you what his hair looked like between latchings and to show the amount of new growth. I'll try to remember to do this next month.

I noticed a few more buds this time and the ends of each plait are more or less sealed. Our routine is the same: shampoo without conditioner every two week. Daily moisturizing with the vegan oil. I am so in love with how soft and cushy his hair is; I play in his hair every chance I get; it's a wonder one or more of those plaits haven't fallen off!

I'm the only one of us who is impressed though. His goal is for these plaits to get long enough and heavy enough to shake. Until then, it's just mommy playing around.

Three months

Today was wash and latch day. Our little babies are growing nicely. I noticed a couple more buds, so I know the loc process is well underway.

My biggest challenge now is keeping lint and dog hair out of his locs. My child is all boy and I guess somewhere in his mind, why sit in a chair, when I can roll all over the floor? There are times when he has more red hair in his head (we have a red dachsund, weenie dog) that his own black locs.

Some is inevitable, I know, but I'm trying to minimize. He has been sleeping in a stocking cap at night, but I think this is drying his hair, and it doesn't really protect well against lint. I think I will pick up a satin sleeping cap and see if that works better. If anyone has any other suggestions, feel free to leave it in the comments.

Have a great weekend.

Budding

I am so excited. I washed my son's hair this past weekend, and latched a few of the more loose ones, admiring how quickly his hair grows. So, as I petted and loved on each loc, I realized that the first budding had taken place!

I believe I mentioned in the previous post that his ends had stopped unraveling; I was already excited to reach that milestone, but this past weekend, I noticed that there are 5 or 6 of his little babies that had clearly entered the loc'ing process!

So, while I was oohing and ahhing over the buds, my son's only question was and still is,

"Can I shake them yet?"

"Nah, not yet, babe. But we're getting there!"