New Cousins!

Nora has 2 new cousins that were born in recently!  Both made it here before Christmas!  =)


Meet. Karleigh.  Karleigh Arlene Dunnam.

Born November 26th.   Weighing 7 lbs 11 oz and 20 inches long!  Isn't she so cute and tiny?!?  This is PaPa (pronounced PawPaw) holding her at the hospital.


Meet Jacob. Jacob Reese Dunnam.

Born December 18th.  Weighing 7 lbs 14 oz and 20.5 inches long!  Isn't he handsome and tiny, too?!?  This is Nora holding him at the hospital.  Well, she might have had a little help holding him and not poking out his eyes or anything!

We're so excited for the new families!

EPIDEMIC!!

Part One.


While together with my family, we love some good entertainment.  There's a new epidemic out there...have you been sucked in yet?

This is a picture of girls from the TLC show Toddlers & Tiaras.  

We've watched quite a few episodes of Toddlers and Tiaras during this year's month at the beach.  A few of the girls have now decided they could do it too.  Well, yesterday morning all the girl cousins decided to have some beauty portraits taken.  They got all dolled up.  Make-up...hair...even set up a photo spot.  

There were many different poses:

(excuse me for only having a few girls in the poses...I only have 1 of the SD cards used to take all these photos!!)

They even ventured into group poses:

This is what I'd call the first epidemic.  



Part Two.


The second epidemic hit quickly the beauty shots were finished.  One of the girls had a little something suspicious in their hair.  After further investigation, it was confirmed...HEAD LICE.

Emma's SCARED!!!  (Actually we all are!!)

For the next 2 hours or so the girls got shampooed, combed, conditioned, combed, etc.  There are 6 girls with it from 11 years old to 6 years old.  Eeeek!  None of them have ever had it.  We don't know if someone brought it or if it was in the house already.  The moms all got checked (I didn't really have to check Nora, we can see she doesn't have any!  Whew!).  None of the adults or the boy cousins have it.  HUGE RELIEF!  Although at one point yesterday I looked down at my shirt and....yes...there was one crawling on my shoulder.  I have done quite a bit of research and am now a self-proclaimed head lice expert!  We figure I got it from sitting on the couch so we have since vacuumed or washed every pillow, cushion, blanket, towel, and clothes in the house.  Whew...it was a lot of work for all of us!  By evening time, the girls had to have their hair combed through again to get all the nits (eggs) out.  Let me just say:  I have been teacher for 4 years (and student teacher for a year prior) and never got it!  I am lucky because they love clean, thick hair!


Here are some pictures documenting this momentous day:

Pour in the special shampoo.

Let it sit for up to 10 minutes.

Rinse it out.

There goes your make-up...

Comb through repeatedly to get out the lice and nits.
Oops...you're make-ups running...!