There is a limit, toy-makers. There is a limit past which you are cutting corners and leaving something which shouldn’t really exist. Take for example a mermaid doll. Sure, her makeup is smudged, the eyes distant and crossed, the plastic…
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Thursday Grab Bag
Just like Taco Tuesday or Pizza Friday, this blog needs a themed day. And since I’m UncleF#*k-Up I get to declare a day and then promptly ignore or forget about it. Today’s grab bag starts with things going wrong in…
Posted in Parenting, Uncategorized Tagged with: CH, eating, food, hair, mess, number two, parenting, toddlers
An Ode to My Daughter’s Hair, Pt. 6
Each one of these Odes involves a fair amount of research, reminding me how long I’ve been doing this. What part am I on again? Have I really written about this five times already? Ahh, but this isn’t about the…
An Ode to My Daughter’s Hair, Pt. 5
Springtime means time spent outside bathing in the brilliant light of a promised season, expectation and growth victorious over the forces of cold and dark. What better way to celebrate the arrival of a new season than a party…
An Ode to My Daughter’s Hair, Part Four
Maybe it’s the dry Santa Ana winds or the relaxed feel of post-holiday malaise but my daughter’s hair is becoming more salon and less troll doll. Remember that it started with what could optimistically be called a pixie cut, and…
An Ode to My Daughter’s Hair, Part Three
It’s been four years and one haircut and what’s the progress? Take a look: The small curls became big curls became swoops and waves. I keep telling Child Harbat that her hair naturally highlights and has body in a way…
An Ode to My Daughter’s Hair, Continued
We’ve been waiting for this moment, hoping that our daughter’s hair would finally get long enough. Like Fukushima nuclear technicians, we’ve watched Child Harbat’s ever-expanding hair in the hopes of some possibility for containment. Ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to…
Ode to My Daughter’s Hair Part Two
For three years Child Harbat has watched while girls her age have grown our long Rapnuzel hair while hers has remained stubbornly short. Her hair has transformed from short downy to short spikey to short and fine and flat to…
Cheap Fun
My wife’s a genius. Why spend buckets of money on complicated electronic toys when sometimes the cheapest toy is the most fun? Yesterday she bought Toddler Harbat some hair curlers at the dollar store. Actual cost of plastic? Three and…
Urgent Hair Update!
Toddler Harbat’s hair over the last three years has been a definite conversation starter among strangers. Recently it’s undergone an amazing growth spurt, but just out the top. Teens these days with a surplus of haute contempt, black fingernail polish,…
