Going Bald and End of Cycle 1

We are officially done with Cycle 1! Hooray! Earlier in the week Danny's hair really started falling out. After a couple days Danny got sick of having hair all over his pillowcase, hat, clothes and even falling into his food. We decided to just shave it all off and avoid the hassle of a slow fall-out. I think he looks very cute bald-and pretty tough too:) We took Lucy to barber shop and explained that Daddy was getting a hair cut. She got to watch them shave it off and she said that he looked like "Baba" (Grandpa). She is already used to the new look-while Danny still does double takes in the mirror.






I want to thank our good friend Jared who showed his love and support by shaving off his beautiful curly hair too! You look great!


On Friday we celebrated the end of Cycle 1 by going to the beach. Danny craves the ocean. He is pulled to it and has made me promise that we must always live within a few hours of the Pacific (or any other surfable ocean water). He still gets a bit too tired to surf at the moment, but just going to the beach got his ocean fill for the week. We drove to Saualito with Marilyn and Lindsay and had a fun lunch on the water and then drove out to Baker Beach in SF just north of the Golden Gate.
While there Danny and I sat on a towel on the beach to relax, well away from incoming tide. Danny laid down to close his eyes and I turned around to check on Lucy and Mom and all of a sudden we were covered in water! I sat there with water around my waist completely shocked that this crazy rogue wave had caught us all the way up the beach! I helped Danny up-he was soaked up to his armpits-and tried to rescue our stuff from drowning (Lucy was safe further up the beach with Grandma-we did check on her before saving our shoes:) Because we're overly protective of Danny's health we stripped him down right there so he wouldn't get a cold (we don't take our chances with old wives' tales) so he went home in our only dry towel (lucky Baker Beach is known to be a nudist beach, and we can report is still actively one...don't go too close to the bridge or else you'll be in for a surprise). We then came up with the joke that you "either come naked or Baker Beach will make you leave naked". We had a good time and it was good for Danny to feel the salt water on his skin again.