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!"