Luckily, we had another event yesterday that was worthy of a few pictures. Eliza got her first haircut! She was being plagued with the "18-month-female-mullet" syndrome. Other babies sport the mullet sooner...probably those lucky babies who are born with a crop of beautiful hair. My babies are nearly bald at birth and even balder a month later. Thus the mullet hits us a little later.
Sage definitely sported this mullet. She had a few curls to cover it up, but one day Mark decided to blow dry her hair, and that brought out the awful truth: the mullet was alive and well. Not a day went by that I didn’t attempt to hide the mullet in little pigtails.
I wised up a little sooner with Eliza and decided a haircut was in order after looking over our weekend pictures at a friend’s cabin in Sundance.
The picture came as something of a revelation, a definite clincher to the hair question that all parents of little girls must ask: quantity or quality? When do you snip off those baby curls in favor of a more grown up and groomed and non-mulletish look? The answer for me was as soon as possible.
Lucky for us, my mom is a jack of all trades, and that includes haircutting (as well as mustache painting, which she also did for one of Eliza's relatives that morning). My mom is also one of the most creative and innovative people I know. In no time she had Eliza strapped in a booster seat that was perched on three phone books, happily licking a sucker and watching Cinderella. Then with a torn rotator cuff, my mom still managed to whip out a stylin' haircut in just a few minutes.
Of course, Sage was not about to let Eliza get away with all the excitement, or all of the sucker, for that matter. She begged for her own chance in the makeshift barbershop chair. Since I wasn't about to give up her curls yet, Mom strapped Sage in, and gave her a literal haircut. She cut one hair. But then she brushed and combed long enough for Sage to take out most of the barbershop sucker, and get in a good fill of Cindrella.
The final product:
6 comments:
Good call on the haircut. Little pixies like Eliza and Mattey look darling with short hair (especially when it's thin). She looks so grown up now, at least 30 months. You better watch out she'll have a boyfriend in no time.
Where did baby Eliza go? What a cutie!
What a nice transition, from haystack to hair model. She is so cute and spunky.
I love it! She looks so darling! Having been in boy world the last couple years, I'd forgotten about that horibble decision. Very good choice, though. And I still think she looks just like Mark!
better than my last cut, that's for sure
That Eliza looks half grown up already! What a cutie! --Mom
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