more haircutting adventures
Once again Mimi got ahold of the scissors. You may remember the other time she experimented with scissors. This time she was really sneaky about her scissors exploit that we didn’t even notice right away. Mimi came down from her nap right as Mike was getting home and insisting the girls go out to frolic in the snow. The girls were dressed in winter gear and out the door before I knew what had happened. Annie returned from outdoors saying that Mimi had told her that she had cut off Annie’s Barbie’s hair. Immediately, we were in search of the doll and hair. It didn’t take long to find Barbie with her new haircut. Isn’t she lovely?
However, the surprises didn’t end there. Do you notice that there are 2 piles of hair in those pictures above? I spotted that brown pile under Mimi’s bed. At first I tried to recall which Barbie/doll we had with that color hair and then quickly realized it came from a little, 3-year-old head. Upon inspecting my child a little closer we discovered that Mimi was missing quite a bit of her long locks and that they were more shoulder-length now. Mike wanted to make this a traumatizing experience for her so that she’ll not get tempted to do this again. So he told her he was going to cut her hair like Barbie’s. Mimi became hysterical at this point as we were setting up, barber-style, to give her a haircut. Eventually, she calmed down enough so that I could give her a reasonable haircut. Can you believe that child had the nerve to say, “I love my new hair!”? We made her promise that she only uses scissors to cut paper from now on. Mike threatened her with a “daddy-cut” if there’s ever a next time. We are all pretty smitten with her new look though. Have a look.
Here’s me doing the dirty work.
Afterward, I decided to give Annie a quick trim to even out the bottom of her hair. It took a LOT of coaxing because she was afraid I was going to cut it as short as Mimi’s. No pictures of her hair because it really doesn’t look any different. I did remark to Mike later that we never had to deal with the scissor fascination with Annie. Why is that? Or will it come later?!?