Oh no...

I've heard of this happening...I've even seen it happen to a friend of a friend's daughter. The moment I gave birth to a little girl, I knew it was inevitable - and that some day, some how, this would happen to my little girl(s). It happened on Sunday as we were all hanging out at Ken and Vickie's house. Just sitting around after church and brunch. Hayley said she was "going to school." So she grabbed the pedicure/manicure kit that was laying on a nearby table, tucked it under her arm like a book and off she went. She was sitting only feet from the rest of us...talking and singing to herself...enjoying "school."

All of a sudden, I hear her say quietly, "cut my hair..." WHAT? Cut what? I panicked, and thought of the manicure kit she had in her possession. Oh no - I vagely remember there being scissors in that kit (since I was the last to use them, so really we could blame this all on me). As I make my way over to where Hayley was sitting, Grandma Vickie jokingly says, "Oh, someday you know she's going to cut her own hair...or her sister's." My heart sank.

As I approached Hayley, all I saw were small piles of her beautiful, shiny hair on the dark green area rug. Oh no - it happened. She cut her own hair.

She got a talkin' to, alright...but I kept my cool. She is pretty sensitive and as soon as I came over there, she knew she did something wrong - so I didn't want to make her feel worse than she already did. I fingered through her hair, and more hair came tumbling to the floor.

The good news is that those scissors were so small and can't cut a lot at one time....so it's almost as if she just thinned out her hair a bit (although you can definitely see where she made the cuts if you look close enough). She has an appt. to get her hair professionally "fixed up" this Thurs., so it'll be just fine.

I just can't believe it actually happened.