Beads!

Last week Aliyah and I met with my friend Vanessa and her daughter Cami so that Vanessa could show this clueless momma had to put beads in Aliyah's hair. In the picture above, Aliyah's hair was in practice mode and Cami has yarn braids which is something I hope to attempt with Aliyah one day. But for our African Haircare 101 we just started with braids and beads.

Then when we got home I gave it a try. This hairstyle took me about an hour. People often ask me how I get her to sit still that long and this is how, lollipop bribes and T.V! You can see the boys absorbed in Olivia in the background.

Aliyah was so excited to have "beads like Cami!" She kept shaking her head back and forth and asking me to hold her up to the mirror to see.

Then we were done it was Aliyah's turn to fix Nick's hair :)