Hairy black beard boy

Mike and I took Tay to see Cord. About twenty minutes into the trip, I remembered that last week Cord had told me to remind Tay that he STILL was growing his beard. So, I told Tay I was going to draw her a picture of something really cool and she would LOVE it.

I drew a picture of Cord with a big BLACK BEARD and showed it to her. IMmediately she started to CRY! and cry and cry....she cried for the rest of the trip...like one hour! I kept trying to tell her it was very cool that daddy didn't have hair on his head, but it fell out through his chinny chin chin! She was NOT impressed and continued to cry and say she wanted to go back home.

It was her birthday March 28 and Cord wanted her to wait and have her party with family when he could be there, so I have presents waiting at my house for her. I tried bribing her, telling her she could open her (PRiNCesS PReSEnt...I whispered it)...that got her to thinking, but then NO that didn't even work. She said, "I will hide under the table and not sit on his lap if you take me there" I DO NOT want to see that beard on him!"

Gramps finally told her that if she didn't want to go in, that HE would stay out with her and wait while grams went in and visited him. She thought that would work and finally stopped crying (these were REAL crocodile HUGE tears rolling down her cheeks kind of crying...not just a little whine...she meant business!)

We arrived at the prison gate and Tay has Cord's number memorized and impressed the guard with reciting it to him. Then she got the coin and put it in the locker where we put our car key and got the little locker key out. Then she wondered if she would "beep" through the security and ran helter skelter fast up the long sloping hall to the next guard where she showed her MY driver's license. I wondered at that point if she had forgotten about "the beard" (whispered).

WE were assigned to the blue room and I told her to count all the inmates who had beards and how cool it is now that men love to grow their facial hair. She said sometimes ladies can grow beards too. We saw Cord come from the other side through his door and immediately she jumped UNDER the table! and started to wail....loudly....I don't want to see HIM!!!

Then I said, It is just the same as last time you saw him (He has been growing it since he turned 30 on February 6 and wants to shave it when he gets out). She then ran out of the visiting and hid behind the door where the guards are, squatting down and crying, NO NO I don't want to see him.

I was trying to explain to people who were staring, She's just afraid of his beard. Everyone seemed to relate...

When Cord came towards us, I said , 'I tried to warn her that you had a beard still, but she has cried and doesn't want to see it." Finally after she had stared at him for awhile, she came out from behind the door and came in to the blue room. She hid her face in Cord's shoulder and kept peeking out at him.

He said, "LOOK! It's just funny little hairs growing out of my face..the same as before when you saw me...it's like your hair grows long and then you cut it..." she giggled a little and then pulled on his beard.

then he said, "when I get out in two weeks, you can help me buzz it off!!" She said, "Oh like Bud's hair?" and Cord said, "YES!"

She was fine with it after that?

whew....

Cord said when he gets out, he wants to go get his clothes out of the storage unit and then go to Walmart to get a few things. WALMART? you are free to go anywhere you want and after 16 months of being locked up, you want to go to WALMART??? (I guess to get a razor that can cut through that massive black beard...photos to follow) I bet this would make the front page news! a great advertisement for wallyworld!

Walmart should definitely desensitize him to anything. ha

We are counting down....unbelievable that time has passed so quickly.