Holy Short Hair

So it happened to us. I've heard stories, read other blogs heck I even did something similar myself but I honestly didn't think it'd happen to us. What happened you might ask! My lovely daughter got a hold of a pair of scissors and mutilated her hair. I think mutilated is the right word because cut doesn't really cover it. The poor thing got a hold of a pair of scissors when I thought she was going potty. I was helping her Dad clean up some glass from a window he was replacing in the next room. I swear I was only away from her for one to two minutes but it was long enough for her to climb up on the toilet and reach a pair of scissors I have stashed in a basket on a shelf that's about four feet high. The little monkey put them up to her head and hacked away. She managed about a three inch radius of chopping. There's one spot she cut it to the scalp. When I walked in on her I about died. My first reaction was anger more at myself than at her. Once Ave realized what she did, however, she freaked out and was pretty upset. Her Dad and I had to calm her down and explain that it would grow back and that she'll just have to wear headbands for awhile. The next morning when she woke up her hair was the first thing she talked about. That night she told us her hair was gross and she keeps telling us it will grow back. Poor kid. I'm trying really hard to get through to her that she's beautiful no matter what but I think this has shaken her. I am guessing in her mind she just thought it'd turn out the way it did when Mommy cut it and I'm sure she never in a million years thought it'd look the way it did when she was done. I still want to just kick myself for not putting the scissors up higher! I won't be posting pics anytime soon becuase we're trying to not make a big deal out of this. I'll take pics of her dressed up for Halloween so you can get a sense of the damage then. For now we're using lots of headbands and figured out that if it's put into pig tails it looks almost normal. Lesson learned by Mommy on this one and I assure you the scissors will be locked up from this point on!