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One morning after Jake’s nappy change and feed his mother told him that there was no need for him to squeeze into his pram to go to the creche. He looked up hopefully, suc-king rhythmically on his soother as was his constant habit now.
She held up a set of pink leather reins. They tinkled as she moved them. Jake cringed but he didn’t bother resisting as she pulled the harness over his arms and buckled it snugly. She tugged on the reins to satisfy herself that he was suitably strapped.
“We’d better go now though. It might take a little longer.” She nudged him towards the door and he waddled awkwardly in his new thicker nappy. As he passed the hall mirror he was reminded that everyone could see below his short lavender dress that he was wearing a nappy under his bulging Lolita bloomers. His mother swung his changing bag over her shoulder having slipped his large baby bottle into the front pocket.
The constant tinkling of his harness as he walked along only drew more attention. A lady who was walking briskly along the footpath in front of them on the main road looked over her shoulder and stopped dead when she saw the large child in the frilly lavender dress and matching bonnet waddling along suc-king on a soother and clutching a doll. Her eyes were immediately drawn to the bulging bloomers and then the changing bag on his mother’s shoulder. She watched slack-jawed as they passed. Jake kept his eyes firmly on the footpath ahead of him and suc-ked hard on his soother.
Andrea beamed as he walked into the creche on his tinkling harness. “Oh did little Jakey walk all the way here, well, waddle?” she tittered. Jake just continued suc-king on his soother as his mother unbuckled his harness – relieved that the annoying tinkling would end for now.
She knelt before him and fingered his long locks, now protruding from beneath his bonnet. “His hair is probably long enough now to make lovely curls!”, she commented. Jake glared at her. “What a wonderful idea!” his mother agreed. “I was thinking he needed a haircut but that’s a much better plan.”
Andrea thought about it. “I think my mother still has the old curling pins her mother used on her! They are definitely vintage now. I never let her use them on me!” she recalled.
Jake had no idea what curling pins were but he didn’t like the sound of it. Andrea gave them to his mother then next day. He looked dubiously at the bundle of pins and wires as his mother put them in her bag.
On Saturday he sat unhappily suc-king on his soother having had his hair coated in setting lotions and then painfully tugged and wrapped around the pins. It seemed like ages that he sat there with the pins heating and giving him a sinking feeling.
His mother was delighted with the mass of sausage curls that resulted. She sat his pink bonnet carefully on his curls tugging a few ringlets down his forehead and ensuring that others dangled over his shoulders.
Jake’s view of the world, already framed constantly with the lace of his bonnets now had the addition of a few ringlets dangling over his eyebrows. He could feel the heavy sausage curls on his neck and shoulders.
On Monday morning his mother freshened his ringlets with a curling tongs before bringing him to the creche for Andrea to see him. She was taking another kid’s coat off when she heard the tinkling from Jake’s harness. She turned with an expectant smile. “Oh how pretty!” She was clearly pleased with his new look. Jake was just wondering how long the annoying and embarrassing ringlets would last for.
His mother took the curling tongs from her bag. “Thank you so much for the loan of them.” Andrea held her hand up. “There’s no need to give them back. I’ve no use for them. You’ll need them to reset his ringlets every week. They’ll just get prettier and prettier as his hair grows longer.” His mother put them back in the bag and smiled. Jake suc-ked even harder on his soother.