Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Baby Hair















I finally broke down and trimmed Sophie's hair yesterday. The wispy mullet was finally just too much for even a doting mother to love.

I truly thought that it would be no big deal to just snip snip and be done with it. Leaving behind a perfectly straight line of hair. What I hadn't factored in was my daughter's absolute inability to sit still and her insatiable curiosity.

From the minute I brought out the scissors, she was craning her neck trying to see what I had. I suppose I made a mistake in trying to be surreptitious with them, hiding them at my side as I approached her. I know there is nothing more alluring than something just out of reach/eyesight. Before she knew what to expect, I swooped in and managed to get the first clip without poking her delicate flesh with the kitchen shears. It went straight down hill from there.

While I did no physical harm to her, it would be seriously stretching it to say that I did a good job. It looked like I used scalloped scissors to cut her hair. It went up and then down and then up and down again. I'm pretty sure I would be able to cut a straighter line on the back of my own head without a mirror.

When Neil got home, he held her and tried to distract her while I attempted to even out my earlier hack job. I am happy to say that I was able to straighten it out a little and she now has a mostly passable 'do.

Every day I see a little less of the baby and a little more of the kid. Today, with her new look, she is even further away from that tiny little bundle I held so close. While so much of me is loving seeing the beautiful little girl she is becoming, I am also nostalgic.

11 comments:

  1. I'm sure her teenage self will thank you for ridding her of the mullet.

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  2. I did this to the babies last week too. No more baby looks, just these little toddlers running around. When did that happen?

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  3. I have chopped on my son's hair, and when I say chopped, I mean butchered. I'm taking him to my hair person in a couple of weeks to get her to straighten it out for me after it grows out a bit. I still haven't touched my daughter's baby mullet. She's almost two. I know I have to come to terms with it soon.

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  4. HIDE THE HAIR. Seriously...lock it away forever.

    'Cause Libbey found hers...when she was about 18 months...untied it, let it fall on the carpet, and a day later tells me, "Hair is a mess!" I cried when I realized what happened. Used tape to gather a few wispy strands.

    OK, so I'm crying now.
    GO HIDE THE HAIR!

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  5. Hey, I've given more than one or two bad haircuts in my time. Thankfully, it grows back.

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  6. LOLl.... oh how I wish I had taken pictures of some of the bang cuts I gave the girls over the years.

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  7. Love the phrase "wispy mullet."

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  8. aww so sweet love the locket of hair. Liam's was so fine it was just fuzz I have a smal jar of fuzz form his first haircut. I'm sure you did a fine job. do you have place to keep it?

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  9. I'm not allowed to touch my kids hair anymore, lol. Per our hairdresser. I tried to give my daughter highlights and turned her ORANGE.

    LOVE the little locks to save!

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  10. My heart felt all bittersweet and sad when I trimmed Dear Son's mullet last summer. I let it go as long as I could and finally caved one day. *sigh* he is now three and has never had a "real" haircut! Good thing he doesn't have much hair in the first place since he seems to fear scissors and barbers.

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  11. Sigh.... How sweet. What a cute way to save her hair, with a ribbon like that.

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Give me some sugar, baby!