I Have Waited 645 Days For This Moment
Date: Monday July 28, 2008Posted in: Emily, Family, Girly Stuff
Six Hundred and Forty-Five Days Ago, I gave birth to a baby girl.
After having two boys, and having four boy cousins on Matthew’s side, we were pretty sure that we were into the testosterone side of living for the long haul. When the doctor and nurse both screamed, “IT’S A GIRL!!!”, my mind was blown. I wept openly with joy.
For while I have an irreplaceable bond with my boys, I wanted so very much to have a girl. To dream dreams of ponies and of princes. Of pink, and of purple, and of all things pastel. Of rainbows, and of ribbons, and of ringlets of gold.
Except?
My baby girl was bald. Seriously bald. NO HAIR TO BE SEEN.
While I knew in my heart that she would not be bald forever (and that she was beautiful, bald or not), I sometimes wondered if she would EVER GROW HAIR. Seriously. I have doubted the ability of her follicles.
Lately, however, the follicles have finally stepped up to the plate. IT IS ABOUT TIME.
Emily has been growing HAIR. Not pansy hair, but REALLY THICK LUSCIOUS HAIR. Complete with curl. YES!
I have been working on her to let me do something that I have wished for since the day she was born. On Sunday morning, my dreams came true.
No, not the dress (Which is from the box of clothes that Ali sent me). Do you see what I am so excited about? How about a zoom (on the girl WHO DOES NOT STOP RUNNING)?
Still stumped? I have more photos! SHOCKING, I KNOW.
Do you see it?
Emily is rocking the Sears pose in order to show you HER MINI BARRETTE.
YES! She has enough hair for a MINI BARRETTE. I may or may not have done a happy dance.
She seems pretty happy about the whole scene as well.
Before you know it we will be dealing with PONY TAILS and BIG BARRETTES and TANGLED CURLS.
I can’t hardly wait.
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Ditto SAJ! Annalie wasn’t totally bald, but she might as well have been. I was so excited when she finally had enough hair for tiny ponytails around the 20th month. 
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Hooray for Emily’s first hair clip! I’m sure it won’t be long before you are posting pics of her cute little pigtails.
She is beautiful - and always has been.
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Comment by Hannah on July 28th, 2008 @ 3:08 amHooray! How fun!
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Comment by Janssen on July 28th, 2008 @ 4:59 amCongrats! I can not wait to see photos down the road of ponytails and pigtails
Too bad ponytails on 14 month old little boys is frowned upon. Right now I am being pressured by DH to cutting my son’s hair.
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Comment by TheAngelForever on July 28th, 2008 @ 5:04 amAhhhh….The older she gets she’ll probably have really thick hair like you. LOVE the little clip and that dress is adorable;)
She is the cutest. I’ve never seen a little girl look so much like mommy. Precious:)
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Comment by Randi on July 28th, 2008 @ 5:05 amCongrats Angella!
I have a friend with a 6 month old baby girl and she has been sticking hair clips into her baldness since day one. I have no idea how.
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Comment by slynnro on July 28th, 2008 @ 5:11 amThe hair clip is a riot! I, too, after two boys was overjoyed for a girl. And got one!! I couldn’t get any of her hairbugs to stay in until she was about three. She has beautiful hair now… if only it would get brushed!
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Comment by Tracy on July 28th, 2008 @ 6:10 amActually from the first picture my thought was “look at all that hair!” Whoo! Congratulations!
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Comment by Heather B on July 28th, 2008 @ 6:18 amoh, i KNOW this feeling.
i went through the same thing with my bald isabella!!
ps. more clothes. i have more clothes for you!
Comment by ali on July 28th, 2008 @ 6:21 amI wonder if you will post in a couple of years that she’s screaming whenever you try to brush the tangles out of her hair? Or that she came home with blue and pink hair? hee hee!
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Oh glorious day!! And yes, she IS totally rockin’ that barette! Yay for Emily & for Mommy! : )
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Comment by Elaine on July 28th, 2008 @ 6:37 amI always thought she was beautiful and now she can accessorize!
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Comment by kirida on July 28th, 2008 @ 7:06 amYAY! By the way, my mother used to scotch tape bows to my head. Likely, any hair I had at the time was ripped out when she removed the tape. It was the 70s. I don’t think she knew any better.
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Comment by Rhi on July 28th, 2008 @ 7:12 amOh, she’s adorable!
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Comment by She Likes Purple on July 28th, 2008 @ 7:17 amLOOK AT THAT SMILE. She is frickin PRECIOUS.
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Comment by Jenny on July 28th, 2008 @ 8:09 amOh, I can totally relate. Eva didn’t have hair for the longest time, and I definitely threw a party the first time I put a mini barette in my hair.
I also remember one of the first times she sported the mini barette, a concerned stranger was staring from afar, came up for a closer look and said “Ohhhh, I thought there was a bug on her head.”
Anyhow, Emily looks adorable. Yay for hair!
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Comment by teresa on July 28th, 2008 @ 8:23 amLook at all that hair! Yay for hair clips!
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Comment by Kristabella on July 28th, 2008 @ 8:31 amAww, too cute!
I was bald till I was 3 as my parents like to remind me so I can sympathize with her joy over the barrette!
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Comment by Kami on July 28th, 2008 @ 8:39 amHee, You crack me up. And she is the cutest, she really is.
Mr. E didn’t have any hair until he was about three, and I think he is very relieved that Senor Pants has any hair at all.
But you know, I think there is a special place in my heart for those bald babies Maybe I will get one some day.
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Comment by Elizabeth on July 28th, 2008 @ 8:41 amBe one with not a lot of hair just yet. I cry when it’s time to brush my oldest.
Comment by gorillabuns on July 28th, 2008 @ 8:42 amAww, she looks so adorable! I love the little barrette!
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Comment by Sharon on July 28th, 2008 @ 9:00 amDude — that is awesome. And now you need these. (Made in Canada by a Canadian designer from Montreal.) http://www.angellily.ca/
We have them and they are next to impossible to pull out.
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Comment by Nadine/Scarb on July 28th, 2008 @ 9:23 amShe’s so gorgeous!!!
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Comment by Camels & Chocolate on July 28th, 2008 @ 9:44 amOh, that is just too stinking cute!!!
Congratulations Ms Emily!!!
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Comment by Meg on July 28th, 2008 @ 10:35 amI love barrettes, bows, headbands…. they are the cherry on top on the beautiful cake And your 645 day old Emily is gorgeous working that mini barrette!
-Andrea
Comment by Andrea on July 28th, 2008 @ 10:53 amThat mini barrette is making me laugh. It’s so CUTE, and MINI.
Very adorable the both of you, as usual. : )
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Comment by Kerri Anne on July 28th, 2008 @ 11:16 amHa, ha, ha, I could have written this post 2 years ago…well minus the boy part.
Love it!
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Comment by Anna on July 28th, 2008 @ 12:37 pmSo cute and so girly! Love it.
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Comment by Elizabeth on July 28th, 2008 @ 1:33 pmAww, how cute and fun!
You can see in the pics that is really is starting to grow! She’ll have pigtails by her 2nd birthday!
Congratulations on this momentous occasion
I remember Princess’ first barrette, she was born sans hair, too.
I was over the moon with her first sticky upy spiky pigtails on top of her head with 6 wisps of hair in each
I feel you and I saw that clip in the very first picture.
Again, felicitations momma 
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I remember the post with the new pack of mini barrettes! The lone barrette gave me a little chuckle :). Not chuckling AT her, of course…Makenna was follicley challenged until 2.
Hey look at me! The buzz wore off and I’m coherent again
How did you figure out the 645 (?) days part?
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Comment by lvgurl on July 28th, 2008 @ 3:47 pmThe first hair bow is always the most special!
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Comment by Maria on July 28th, 2008 @ 6:44 pmFinally! And it looks ADORABLE!!! Love her dress too!
Comment by Michele on July 28th, 2008 @ 10:39 pmAwww! Her hair is really growing fast now! What a fun time! I love shopping for and putting clips in my girls’ hair - but they won’t keep them in . . . so good luck with that!
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Comment by Kate on July 29th, 2008 @ 7:37 amSo cute! I have an almost-six-month-old baby girl and I CANNOT wait for the hair accessories too. Right now, she’s only got duck fuzz, but I live for the day when I will be able to put a miniature sticking-up ponytail on top of her head.
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One day! One day I shall be able to put in a pink barrette!!! Even if we have another boy. I shall do it at least ONCE! One of my kids will wear a pink barrette, dammit.
(And if we don’t have any more children at all? I guess I will force it on my 9-year-old and give him a reason to go to therapy as an adult.)
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Comment by Loralee on July 29th, 2008 @ 3:35 pmBeautiful!!!!
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Comment by Mrs. Wilson on July 29th, 2008 @ 5:09 pmps. one of your google ads says, “Boys Wearing Thongs”. Just thought you should know. I might have spit out my juice when I read it.
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Comment by Mrs. Wilson on July 29th, 2008 @ 5:12 pmNot fair! When Emily was bald, all I looked at were her big eyes. Now I have to divide my attention between beautiful eyes AND hair!
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Comment by Shawna on July 29th, 2008 @ 6:18 pmI so did a happy dance when we finally got the mini clip. The fountain ponytail is soon to follow. Get your rubber bands now!!
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Comment by Calee on July 31st, 2008 @ 10:47 pm
Yayyyyy!!!! As another mother of a bald baby I know the happiness!
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