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Friday, September 28, 2007
a red-letter day
C has been longing for shorter hair for at least a year. (This is the seven-year-old version of peer pressure. "Daisy has short hair, Mom, please?"). Other than her bangs and one end-trim about a year ago (well, and the two times she took scissors to herself as a toddler), her hair had never been cut. I had originally told her that her hair belonged to me until she was ten years old, by law, at which point she could decide to shorten it if she wanted to, but I relented a couple of months ago and told her that for her eighth birthday we could have a special trip to the salon and get her hair cut short, if she didn't change her mind -- which she didn't. Sunday's her birthday, and salons are closed Sundays, so we went today.
Goodbye, long hair.
C and my favorite Russian hairstylist, Natalya (I say this as if I've been to her more than once, or as if, for that matter, I've been anywhere to have my hair cut more than once in the last decade), discussing options.
Somehow she looks about five years older than she did two pictures ago.
(This is C in her new dress, a birthday present from T's parents.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PRINCESS. love love love you.
Comments
Aw. She looks so solemn in the big salon chair! Like she fully comprehends the gravity of the moment. ;o) Or maybe she's just trying to decide how much to have chopped off...
Posted by: Michael at September 29, 2007 05:29 AM
TOO cute with the bobbed hair and the dress. Awwwwww.
Posted by: mary at September 29, 2007 12:14 PM
Oh! I love it! My second daughter didn't get her first haircut until age 7, also. When she finally got it done, it looked much the same as C's. A lot less crying during hairbrushing time....
Posted by: Denise at September 29, 2007 09:08 PM
Oh, my goodness, she looks so grown up! Wow!
Posted by: Kat with a K at September 30, 2007 05:06 AM
Gotta love those angel kisses (freckles) on that sweetie of yours!
Hugs to all!
Posted by: Cami at October 1, 2007 06:05 PM
Okay, I have to say - I think she looks older with the long hair. She looks her age now. Before, I think she looked rather like a teenager wearing someone else's face LOL LOVE the new hair !
Posted by: Carol at October 3, 2007 01:46 AM
Oh, my heart got stuck in my throat. Old on. *Cough*
She DOES look five years older. Wow. She's GORGEOUS. Love it. Tell her I said so.
Posted by: jennifer at October 4, 2007 09:18 PM
