Our redhead

Our little redhead. May !st 1994 changed our lives forever. Tori Anne Trent entered our lives. We were surprised when the nurse said "look at all that red hair." The nurses in the hospital loved quaffing her hair up on top of her head with a little gel and adding a cute little bitty bow. A couple of my best friends in high school were redheads and for some reason I secretly hoped that I never had a redheaded baby. When I saw Tori for the first time I fell in love. She was perfect. Her red hair suited her and made her a little unique. People often compliment her on her beautiful red hair. I think she views it as one of her best assets. She sometimes is heard saying things like: "oh no the sun is turning my hair blond" while trying to shield it from the sun with a shoe or whatever else is handy, or "is my hair less red than it used to be?" She is a beautiful girl and yes, her red hair adds to her beauty. They say that red heads have tempers. Tori doesn't have much of a temper. She is fiesty and mischevious however. She loves to goose people, make them scream, then laugh and laugh. She seems to get great joy from teasing her siblings mercilessly.

Her red hair can not only be found on top of her head, but also on the wall of her shower. Teegan refuses to shower in there because "there is gross hair everywhere". Does Tori put it there to create a hair art masterpiece? Because she wants to admire it while she showers? Because she wants to sew a wig and give it to a poor soul with no hair (like her dad before long. I wonder what he would look like with long red hair)? She says she does it because she doesn't want it to go down the drain. Maybe she just can't bear seeing that beautiful red hair slide down the drain to disappear forever. We think it is strange that she displays her hair on the wall of her shower and then "forgets" to throw it away. But in the old days they did make art by braiding or crocheting hair into lacie doilies then framing it. Maybe I shouldn't have just thrown that shower hair away! Oh well, I am sure there will be more there again tomorrow.