Nina's First US Haircut
As horrible as it looks in that picture, things actually went extremely well. No blood was shed, but Nina did cry the entire time. She lost a little of her curly locks in back due to him having to even the hair out. It seems that when they cut her hair before we got her, they cut it at the hairline at the front and back and didn't touch the sides, making her have some odd hair. Here's a picture from when we were still in Nanchang:



She's My Hero
Nina went to the first birthday party of one of her male friends. Nina loved sliding down the slide they had in their back yard, and my arms are feeling it today. Most notable about the party had to have been when the guest of honor had a high chair failure and did a four foot faceplant onto concrete. Babies heads hitting concrete is a horrible sound.

Well, Nina was struggling to get to Baby Smashface. She was hustling through the crowd. I had to grab her since she didn't respond to "Nina, no, you can't help."

But it's nice that she tried to get there for him.

The Great Communicator
While Nina was in the toddler nursery and we were down in church service, Alison and I heard a cry that sounded like Nina's voice. Alison went to check, and it wasn't her, but she did get to see an interesting exchange.

One of the twins, very rambunctious and bordering on bandito brothers, walked up to Nina who was sitting on a rocking desk thing and holding a ball. The twin sized her up and looked like he was going to take her ball. Nina preemptively patted him on the stomach and the toy-gap crisis was over. He toddled away.

Closure for Accidental Foreshadowing
Oh, and Baby Smashface was fine too. His face broke his fall.


- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 1:54 PM