To Do or not to Hairdo?

I face a daily inner struggle. Claire has a great head of hair with lots of styling potential. However, clips and rubber bands will only last a short while. As soon as she has a moment to get bored and contemplate the fact that something is in her hair, she will find a way to pull it out. So we usually leave the house cute and reach our destination with hair out, shoes off, but way more comfortable. Rubber bands last longer, but leave crazy crimps and bends in the hair as shown above. Clips are worthless. With Ashlyn it was easy because I just needed a bow and some elmers glue to make her bald head a little more fancy until she was 18 months. I guess with Claire I will just have to stick with it until she learns to leave her hair alone. Any suggestions or miracle clips out there? Or did I seal my fate by not putting elastic headbands around her head from birth to get her used to having something on her head?

Brock and I decided that we would go ahead and bite the bullet and put up some bunk beds. We wanted to keep a room as an office/study and knew that deep down the girls will love being cramed into one room for a couple of years...it will build character and sisterly love and affection. As we set it up Ashlyn and Claire kept climbing on the bottom bunk anxious to try it out. We asked Ashlyn what it needed and she suggested sheets, but other than that it was comfy. She is so easy to please at this point. While we were driving today I pointed out some hot air balloons and she was pretty excited. She suggested that maybe they were racing and said, "that would be fun to ride on one, but we don't have one...We have a rocking horse though." I'm glad she is content with her rocking horse 'snowpea'.

Back to the bunk beds...Ashlyn loves climbing her ladder and going to bed every night...well, most nights. She is coming to the realization that after she goes to sleep we do all sorts of fun things like clean the kitchen and do homework. She requests to sleep in our room or on the hallway floor, or tries to make us promise to go right to sleep. The excitement of a top bunk to sleep in has curbed those requests for the moment.