OK so I have been seriously MIA for like a month but things got very hectic here and I just haven't had much computer time. ~sigh~
DD's hair was driving me INSANE as you know...but we were making pretty good progress after the camping trip. Tuesday night however we got to the last section and it was NOT coming out.
DD and I were both beyond frustrated and I just wanted to scream. Her cheerleading coach suggested vegetable oil...work it in, and then use a pick...and so we spent 2 hours each night {Tuesday & Wednesday} doing that. It got to the point where it was literally me pulling ONE strand at a time to untangle it from the mess and more was breaking off than untangling.
That Thursday night after working on it for almost an hour, I told her that I would cut thru the middle of the knot and see if we could at least save most of the hair or we could keep going as it was and try to work it out. Mind you, she is sitting there with this knot literally DRIPPING vegetable oil all over and tears pouring down her face from the pain. She said to cut it, so out came the scissors. I cut thru the center of the knot and THE CENTER WAS BONE DRY!!!!! The vegetable oil couldn't even seep into the center b/c the knot was so tight. I did manage to save most of it...even got lucky in that it was so tight that where I cut still combed out to be past her shoulder in length.
Almost two weeks of trauma to get it out...and what does her stepmother say when I drop her off on Friday. {I was talking to her bio-father but NOSY had to push her way into the conversation!} I told him that I had spent the majority of the previous two weeks working on getting the knot out of her hair...and her SM says "She washed her hair that morning before she went home...it wasn't THAT bad!"
I swear I wanted to smack her! I just looked at my DD's bio-father and said...well ask her cheerleading coaches, or any of the MANY friends and family I had to ask for help how bad it was - I can even show you the pictures I took the night she came home and YOU can decide if it was "THAT bad!"
He just asked me how it happened and I tolfd him that DD told me she hadn't had a brush available to brush her hair while she was there. He said "Oh...well I got a new brush yesterday, so she'll have one now." Gee and it only took you THREE weeks to replace the brush - how nice for your other girls.
: {No I didn't say it - just thought it!} Of course DD now has her "travel bag" that she takes every week with a brush, combs, hair ties, bath supplies {I found out she gets ONE shower - RIGHT before she comes home - all weekend and they don't always have shampoo,conditioner, bodywash/soap etc when she is there} - so there is no worries about whether she will be able to brush her hair or not.
<B>THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR HELP!!!!!</B>
P.S. On a side note - at the first two games DD cheered for - her BF, SM and their two DDs came and the youngest's hair looked like it hadn't been WASHED, let alone brushed, for at least a week both times. I was shocked and wanted to ask them if they needed me to buy them detangling spray and a brush for the poor girl. I can not imagine letting that happen to my child's hair - for any reason. Their older DD is in school, so she gets her hair brushed every day during the week - but I doubt the younger one gets hers done more than once a week at best from seeing it two weeks in a row the way it was. {Not my problem of course...but I feel soooo bad for this little girl who will be 4 next month.}
DD's hair was driving me INSANE as you know...but we were making pretty good progress after the camping trip. Tuesday night however we got to the last section and it was NOT coming out.
DD and I were both beyond frustrated and I just wanted to scream. Her cheerleading coach suggested vegetable oil...work it in, and then use a pick...and so we spent 2 hours each night {Tuesday & Wednesday} doing that. It got to the point where it was literally me pulling ONE strand at a time to untangle it from the mess and more was breaking off than untangling.That Thursday night after working on it for almost an hour, I told her that I would cut thru the middle of the knot and see if we could at least save most of the hair or we could keep going as it was and try to work it out. Mind you, she is sitting there with this knot literally DRIPPING vegetable oil all over and tears pouring down her face from the pain. She said to cut it, so out came the scissors. I cut thru the center of the knot and THE CENTER WAS BONE DRY!!!!! The vegetable oil couldn't even seep into the center b/c the knot was so tight. I did manage to save most of it...even got lucky in that it was so tight that where I cut still combed out to be past her shoulder in length.
Almost two weeks of trauma to get it out...and what does her stepmother say when I drop her off on Friday. {I was talking to her bio-father but NOSY had to push her way into the conversation!} I told him that I had spent the majority of the previous two weeks working on getting the knot out of her hair...and her SM says "She washed her hair that morning before she went home...it wasn't THAT bad!"
I swear I wanted to smack her! I just looked at my DD's bio-father and said...well ask her cheerleading coaches, or any of the MANY friends and family I had to ask for help how bad it was - I can even show you the pictures I took the night she came home and YOU can decide if it was "THAT bad!"He just asked me how it happened and I tolfd him that DD told me she hadn't had a brush available to brush her hair while she was there. He said "Oh...well I got a new brush yesterday, so she'll have one now." Gee and it only took you THREE weeks to replace the brush - how nice for your other girls.
: {No I didn't say it - just thought it!} Of course DD now has her "travel bag" that she takes every week with a brush, combs, hair ties, bath supplies {I found out she gets ONE shower - RIGHT before she comes home - all weekend and they don't always have shampoo,conditioner, bodywash/soap etc when she is there} - so there is no worries about whether she will be able to brush her hair or not.<B>THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR HELP!!!!!</B>
P.S. On a side note - at the first two games DD cheered for - her BF, SM and their two DDs came and the youngest's hair looked like it hadn't been WASHED, let alone brushed, for at least a week both times. I was shocked and wanted to ask them if they needed me to buy them detangling spray and a brush for the poor girl. I can not imagine letting that happen to my child's hair - for any reason. Their older DD is in school, so she gets her hair brushed every day during the week - but I doubt the younger one gets hers done more than once a week at best from seeing it two weeks in a row the way it was. {Not my problem of course...but I feel soooo bad for this little girl who will be 4 next month.}
But I realize as she gets older that it won't be that easy. When I DO comb her hair I put lots of leave-in conditioner and comb it from the bottom of the hair and work my way upwards towards the knot. That always works best. 
