Crocheting SOS!

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I decided I'm going to make crochet animals for my (future) baby room theme, which will be a Fantasy-ish Forest place.. with unicorns, fairies, woodland creatures, and such. :)

I started a Koala (yes I know, not really woodland, but he's so damn cute!)

Well, I got the body of the koala done, but the head has gone ALL wrong!!! XD

I tried making the head, but I don't know how it's supposed to look or if it's supposed to be just a circle.. but umm.. it looks like a doiley.

Here's the instructions for it:

http://www.womansday.com/Articles/Crafts/Crocheting/Cuddly-Crochet-Creatures-Koala.html 


I'm wondering if anyone knows how to crochet who can help explain the head!?

(Is it supposed to be just a circle or is it supposed to become a tubular shape like the body did???)

I started over today on the head, just a couple of minutes ago, cause that obviously wasn't how it was supposed to work.. I could barely make it look like a head shape.. so no good.. scrap!.. :P

I'm mostly having trouble because I don't know what it means when it says..

2 sc in 1 st sc, 1sc in next. or 1 sc in next 3 sc, I obviously didn't do it right the first time & my book (from the lib) doesn't explain.. :(

PLEASE HELP! D:

Thanks! :D