Haha! I love it! She's a cutie!

Thank you so much for the offer! I've been trying to do research, like on the adoption hair and skincare yahoo group, but it is pretty overwhelming. Basically I've been doing it every day to every other day, simple stuff like pig tails, twists, or a mini afro. When I do her hair I spray it pretty wet with a mix of water, tea tree oil conditioner, and a bit of oil, kymy? oil I think. If I don't do her hair I still try and spray it once or twice in the day. I've washed it once, and what I did was get it all rinsed well, then lathered it up with conditioner. Then I sectioned it, combed through each section, and then twisted each section. Then I untwisted, rinsed and retwisted each section. After we finished with her shower I sprayed her hair with the same mixture and did more secure twists before she went to bed. We also got her a nightcap to wear at night. We really want to keep her hair natural, so I've tried not to do to much to it till I know what I'm doing, what's good for her hair and what isn't. What's your opinion of using vaseline? I've read a few places that it's a big don't, but not why. A few years ago we had two biracial children and we took them to see some friends of ours who are Black. They told us to use vaseline, but they also use hot irons and such so I thought maybe it had to do more with the natural/unnatural viewpoint? I would appreciate ANY product suggestion, and any super do's and don'ts for Black hair. We'll be heading up to a Wal-Mart next week and I hope to stock up on products. I did find one thing at our local durgstore, a placenta and henna hair mask type thing. Do you know anything about that?

Thank you so much! I know I asked way too many questions, but my mom and I are pretty clueless, and Juliette (Sarah) can't help us much.