Dr. Dreadlock
18 November 2008 – 19 November 2008
R.I.P.
- Dr. Dre(adlock)
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- Gross. It really does look like a rat tail.
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- Now she’s curling both sides
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Du got Ashlyn out of her crib this morning. He came into the living room holding Ashlyn in one hand and her dreadlock in the other.
“I found this in the crib.”
I retched a little.
Does this child not feel pain? Is that the explanation for her superpowers?
What I’m realizing is that there’s actually a very scientific reason behind the amazing overnight dreadlock growth and overnight dreadlock death. When she twirls her very fine hair into a little knot some of it is actually pulled from her head, but it gets wrapped up in the knot. I try to work the knot out every morning, but never manage completely. Yesterday she had managed to work all that extra unattached hair into a longer rat tail like substance. Almost like spinning cotton into yarn.
Hair yarn.
Anybody want to make a sweater for Polly Pocket?
I’m afraid the only recourse is to actually cut her hair into a really short bob so there’s nothing to twirl. After all, her hair isn’t going to grow longer if she keeps doing this to it. But then what would her coping mechanism be? Probably yanking Mommy’s earrings from Mommy’s ears.
Not So SAHM 
Ohhhh Lord, call the paramedics…I can’t breath due to laughing so hard!! She truly was making her own dreadlocks. Make a sweater? How about an old fashion hair pillow? No, I’m not making that up.
Ashlyn, sweetie – that story was about Goldie Locks, not dreadlocks.
Oh my. This is something I’m missing out on by having little boys with crew cuts.
It’s bringing back memories of my own childhood though. I think I used to chew on my hair. Gross.
OUCH!
I think I met Ashlyn’s soul mate in the grocery store last night … he didn’t have a rat tail though! 🙂
LOL ! I am laughing so hard! And she is still twirling!
I once saw a T.V. clip about a woman who saved the hair from her brush for years and knitted a sweater/skirt combo. An entire outfit out of her hair! She had a dull brown color hair (like mine). It was so wrong!
disgusting! i love it! maybe you could incorporate the dreadlock into a build-a-bear?
You’ve GOT to be kidding me. “Spazzy” has those EXACT pajamas (my mom just bought them for her) and she LIVES in them, because she has a ‘jammie fettish/obsession. I will send you proof I”m not making this up…lol!
PS. I just showed her Ashlyn’s picture and she said “Dat me!” and I said, “No, that’s a little girl names Ashlyn” and she laughed her psychotic happy laugh and then said, “Go get my jammies!”
Ugh. I think they are in the washer, still wet.
Gah! She pulled that thing out herself! CrAzY!!
That is tooooooo funny:-)
Emma is a twirler too – only she likes to twirl her mommy’s hair.
I hope you saved that thing for her scrapbook!
Ok, the funniest thing about this post is your tags… “gross hair pictures, toddlers with unattached dreds” hahahaha!
My daughter’s coping mech. ended with her losing hair too but she did it in a different way. She would lay in her crib and shake her head back and forth, rubbing it on the mattress. She was bald in a perfect line around her head – she looked like a monk 🙂
my two youngest get these to..I guess it is from them laying around and rubbing their heads against the pillows and things…I cannot believe she pulled it out…ouch….lol….