Today Abbie GAVE HERSELF her first haircut!
Christian, Abbie, and I were doing some cutting homework with child-safe scissors at the dining room table. After finishing our cutting project I started helping Christian with his Chinese homework leaving the scissors laying next to us on the table. After a few minutes I heard snipping noises coming from the playroom. I realized Abbie had taken her scissors and thought I would discover her snipping away at some paper in the playroom. I was going to scold her for cutting without me, but NOTHING prepared me for this...my sweet little girl's hair all over the floor!
Christian, Abbie, and I were doing some cutting homework with child-safe scissors at the dining room table. After finishing our cutting project I started helping Christian with his Chinese homework leaving the scissors laying next to us on the table. After a few minutes I heard snipping noises coming from the playroom. I realized Abbie had taken her scissors and thought I would discover her snipping away at some paper in the playroom. I was going to scold her for cutting without me, but NOTHING prepared me for this...my sweet little girl's hair all over the floor!
I completely lost it and started freaking out/screaming/crying! Greg came rushing downstairs to find out why I was hysterical. He tried to calm me down, but I was in such shock! I knew Abbie's hair would be cut someday, but it was just so sad and shocking to me that her beautiful little blond locks were laying all over the floor. Greg scolded Abbie and she started crying. We asked her, "Why did you cut your hair?" Through tears she stammered, "I wanted to make my hair pretty." It was hard to scold her after that innocent little statement.
Abbie's hair was pretty messed up after her personal haircut. She basically cut off the majority of her hair in the front giving her extra long bangs, so I really didn't have much choice but to take her to a barber to get it professionally fixed. I cut Greg and Christian's hair with clipper guards, but doing a real haircut with scissors is out of of my league. So I called a friend, got a recommendation for a nice barber shop that does a good job on kids cuts and walked into the barber shop. Thankfully we only had to wait a few minutes and a wonderful barber refined Abbie's haircut.
Abbie Post-Abbie-Haircut & Pre-Barber-Haircut
She loved sitting in her little pink mini cooper.
Abbie was excellent during her haircut. She followed all the barber's instructions and never cried or complained in the slightest. He basically tapered the Abbie-made-bangs into the rest of her hair, trimmed her hair, and then layered her hair. He then asked Abbie, "Who should cut your hair?" "Just you should cut my hair" she answered. YES - Good Answer Abbie! :)
Final Results - An Adorable New Haircut! :)
