Cute and Sweet to Boot!

With naturally curly hair, not enough to look consistently curly, but just enough to be ever-so-tangley, Gabbers decided she was ready for a new style. Her decision cemented when she learned her locks could be given with love to people needing wigs through the Locks of Love organization. She thought giving her hair to help a child with cancer would be "so cool."

Knowing that daddy had some trouble with my short chop a few years ago, she was nervous that he might not be on board. But, knowing this meant something to her, Daddy agreed.

It was a whirlwind affair . . . she decided on Saturday, talked to our hairstylist on Sunday, and by 1:00 this afternoon, her lengthy locks were cut adorably short!

Dad has only seen the new do through a picture text, but he made her day when he said she looks very beautiful, and much older. Here's her before and after :)

It turned out to be a big day for all the kids in one way or another . . . the boys, as I mentioned before had their well child checks. It turns out, just as we've known for several years, Graysen is a moose :) 95% in both height and weight, according to his stats, the kid as an almost perfect square. Brennen, is also above average (75% for weight, 85% for height), but is built like a string bean.

While I was there chatting with our doctor, I mentioned that Caelan hadn't reacted to gluten during our loooooong trip this spring. She's been asking if we could retest. Dr. A gave the go-ahead. She ordered labs for whenever we can get in for the blood draw . . . following two weeks of normal diet. I can hardly even imagine. We have been so careful for almost 9 years! Just hand her a piece of bread? Let her eat pizza from restaurant? Whatever cereal she wants? Birthday cake or cookies with the other kids? Pasta! It blows my mind. We are going to wait until next week, because we have company coming this weekend (and don't want her to be miserable if this doesn't work out the way she's hoping). The last set of tests we did when she was not even 2 yet. And even then, she hadn't been exposed to gluten, so (we've learned) they weren't super accurate. The upper-endoscopy did show that she was all flared up after some exposure at 2, but since then, we've just been managing by her reactions. I just hope she doesn't fall in love with "real" food and end up back where she started. Augh!