Waiting...and Waiting....and African Hair?

I am starting to really "feel"  the waiting part of this adoption.  We have only been at this for about eight months.  In the adoption world that is nothing.  People wait years and years for their children to come home. We received our document back from the AZ Secretary of State with a note attached telling us to completely re-due the document.  I am a little bit heart broken.  I thought for sure that this was the week we would finally be able to say that all we are waiting for are children.  I am ready to be on the list!  I want to know that we have a file in Ethiopia that says we can accept children whenever they have them available for us.  I have to daily remind myself that this IS all happening in God's perfect timing.  He knows when our kids will get here and exactly when we need to submit our dossier.  Right now it is just killing me that things keep coming up...and then keep coming up.  This is the third time I have sent this document back to the Secretary of State.  Please pray that this time it will get authenticated.  I need to be using this time to draw close to God and praise him for caring about us so much that he is having us wait on His perfect timing.

Meanwhile I have been studying how to do my little Ethiopians hair which only makes me more exited to get them home.  There are so many cute ways to do African hair and I am so exited to get started!I did look up a few different hairstyles and watch a couple tutorials on youtube.  For the most part, I just wanted to get a good idea of what I need to do when they get home.  So I studied a one year olds hair care regiment.  Most of the time when the kids come home from Ethiopia, they have shaved heads due to lice.  If they do have hair, it is not healthy to say the least and there is not much you can do with it except get it healthy and start trying to grow it.  Here are some things I will be doing to make sure my childrens hair is healthy and moisturized.

Wash it - Either with a moisturizing shampoo or with a conditioner weekly.  I will do an apple cider vinigar wash once month.

Condition it - With a deep conditioner.

De-tangle it - With a leave in conditioner

Moisturize it - With coconut oil or Shea butter

Style it - With a styling cream of my choice.

This is a lot to do on a babies hair!  I am so exited to get started!  The cute styles are endless.  I did try to practice a couple hair styles on Irelyn which did not go to well.  Her hair is too soft and slippery and fell out of every style I tried to do.  I am going to make a practice board which I found on my favorite chocolate hair/vanilla care blog so I can practice before they get here.

I am trying to stay busy and trying to keep my mind off of the wait.  Thankfully I have a very active little girl who takes up a lot of my time.  I dont know how parents who have no kids wait for their adoptions to finally take place. At least when you are pregnant you have an exact time frame.