Locks of love

Yesterday I was getting the kids ready to leave for church. I had already done Olivia's hair but it needed to be redone as she had been playing under blankets. I went to comb her ponytail and thought that it felt kind of short but it wasn't until I went to wrap the rest of her hair around my finger that I realized that she had CUT her hair. She had taken scissors and cut about six inches off each side. She still had beautiful baby curls down her back but now there was half of them.

I about started crying. I knew that eventually we would have to cut off her baby curls but they are still so beautiful and it was so untimely. All day yesterday I was in shock. You would have thought that there had been a tragedy in the family. I never guessed that I would have reacted this way.

She wore it to church yesterday in her haircut and this morning we went to see Stephanie, our "beautician", to fix what Olivia had done. She tried to save some of Olivia's curls by layering the hair, but I am not sure I love it. The layers look a little too grown up for my three year old. We will probably leave it until January when all the hair evens out a bit more and then we will have to cut the rest of the curls off.