Sophie was born with beautiful, thick, curly, dark hair. I have always loved it. It's lightened up quite a bit, grown, and I still love it. She has come to really love it too. She calls it her "Tangled" hair.
Today she cut it.
She asked to watch Cinderella, I said yes. 10 minutes or so passed and I hadn't heard the movie start so I went to make sure she didn't need any help. It took me a minute to comprehend what had happened. There was a pile of hair, scissors on the floor and my daughter was missing a whole chunk of her hair.
"YOU CUT YOUR HAIR?????" I admit I did not handle this situation well. I screamed, yelled, grounded, banished and then cried. After I calmed down a bit this was our conversation.
"Sophie, you cut all your beautiful hair off! I can't believe you did that!"
"I don't like my beautiful hair."
"But now we're going to have to chop it all off like a boy!"
"I don't care. I want boy hair."
When she said this I realized she didn't realize what she had actually done because she freaks out if we ever tease her that we're going to cut her hair like Logan's or Brandon's. I took her into the bathroom to show her what she had done and she started sobbing.
I text-ed my good friend, Erica. She's a fantastic hair dresser and I wanted to see is she had any recommendations where I could take Sophie, secretly hoping she'd volunteer. Of course she did and I took Sophie over.
Sophie was really nervous the whole time, whining and asking where I was. Erica worked her magic and luckily the result is a really cute, really short cut. I wish I had recorded her reaction to the big reveal. It was a great one! She was so shocked. Mouth open wide, and then a huge smile. Sophie loves it! I will too.... eventually.
