C.'s new look: A fishtail braid and two stitches

Last year, one school aide would occasionally braid C.'s hair this way.  It never failed to impress me and I was convinced it was a feat way beyond my coiffing capabilities.

But, last night I finally Googled "braids" and found these clear for-idiots instructions plus diagrams for it. I also learned it has a name: The Fishtail Braid...

Here is the result of my very first attempt.

C. was resistant at first, as she always is whenever I do her hair, but eventually resigned herself to the process. Note: this braid is easy to make but took me twice as long as a standard one.

Today, my braid conquest was overshadowed by this:

I was walking C. at home, MEDEK-style, when she suddenly doubled over in a seizure and suffered a cut above her mouth. It looked small and the Hubby and I were tempted to just clean and bandage it ourselves.  But it bled pretty copiously and I didn't want C.'s pretty face to be scarred so we trekked to our health fund's main offices. There, a surgeon told us that it was actually a very deep gash warranting two stitches.

Moral: Never judge a cut by its appearance.