Sunday, November 22, 2009

Three for Three...

I remember when Cami was a toddler, some older, wiser mother told me that there would come a day when Cami would cut her own hair.  That it was inevitable.  Every girl does it sometime.  It's some combination of being fascinated with scissors, playing pretend, and interest in their own appearance.   I listened intently, but naively believed that only careless mothers would ever leave children unattended around scissors. 

Haha!  It wasn't but a couple of years later when the day came that I became that careless mother.  I remember gasping horror when I found a long lock of Cami's blond hair on the floor.  I begrudgingly took her into the hair salon to get 6 or 7 inches lopped off and swore it would never happen again.

A few years later, on a hot summer day Emma's hair was making her "sweaty" and getting in her face, so she lopped it off.  Right at the scalp in the front.  There was no need to take her to the hair salon, since there was nothing left to cut.  (Sound like any famous movie scenes you've seen?)



Well, as you've probably guessed by now, we've recently completed the circle and made it 3 for 3 deal with Ellie joining in the "fun". 




And out of all three of my girls, Ellie was by far the maddest at the consequences. She cried when I even mentioned having to cut her hair to even it out. 

 And when I actually did it tonight, yikes, we saw a whole new side of Ellie.  Apparently she was quite attached to her hair....except for that one lock in the front.




And now that we've got that girly rite of passage out of the way, I guess I get to be the older, wiser mother who gets to dish out advice to everyone. 

My tidbit for the day:  All girls cut their own hair. 



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7 comments:

Grandpa-Grandma said...

As mom will attest-at least it is better than gum in the hair...

Don't worry Ellie, as they always say the difference in a bad haircut and a good haircut is about 12-15 days. At least that is the rule for boys...

K said...

Ellie's new haircut is cute even if it wasn't planned! (o:

Denise said...

oh man. i agree ... the haircut is cute...but oh man.

Charlene said...

I remembered that I cried more than Emma did when she cut her hair. Luckily with curly hair, you couldn't tell it was cut and blended nicely with the rest of her hair!!
Ellie's haircut is very cute!!

Deanne said...

Ellie might not be a fan of the length, but I think it's super cute!

Your daughters have all cut their hair at least once. Have they ever gone and cut it a second time?

Mirien said...

I think the new cut is cute! That looks suspiciously like the pictures of Corinne about 18 months ago. She gave herself a mullet, but was so upset when I cut the rest. Everytime she saw herself in a mirror she'd scowl and say, "I don't like that hair!" She hasn't cut her hair since, but last week I caught her cutting Hayley's!

Honey Mommy said...

My boys hair is too short for them to cut. Maybe that's why they've never attempted it!

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