1st Haircut!!

My Mom and I took Brooklyn to get her 1st haircut today...it has been getting quite shaggy. I love the whispy look of it...but unfortunately when she wakes up, she can't see because her bangs come down to her nose!! We wanted to even it up in the back...get rid of her mullet look and cut her bangs so she can see the world around her, without always having to have her hair pulled up! (because if we just use a clip...she yanks it right out!). She will also tilt her head upwards to try and see out from under her hair...it's just kinda sad :(

The Before...

Mommy sprays my hair with water every day...but somehow this is different...and NOT fun

So...ten and a half months after she was born we took her to Cool Cuts 4 Kids and made an appointment with Mary Lou (recommended by Karol). Mary Lou was so so good with Brooklyn, however Brooklyn might beg to differ. Unfortunately, I think it might have been a traumatizing experience for her. It was really no different than me fixing her hair (because I use a spray bottle of water), however they had to put a cape on her...and she was not a fan!! She loves to grab the comb when I do her hair and try to see what I am doing...the cape prevented her from getting her arms up and being Mary Lou's little helper...so that frustrated her from the beginning.

Why me??

Ok, maybe we can play beauty shop...

No more mullet...

However, they do everything in their power to make it fun for kids...they have movies playing...sit them in cute car hair styling chairs...and it is just a fun environment. Brooklyn loved sitting on the Lego table and playing with Legos...we decided they just should have cut her hair there...haha.

Time for bangs! Now do you understand why I can't see?!?!

Ok, I think this is better, but I might need a nap first...

Getting cute is hard work!!

The sum of our outing and first hair cut experience...is out little baby girl now looks even more like a little girl. She is more girl and less baby every day (and her BIRTHDAY is in less than two months...how??). Anyways, she is precious...and looks like a doll (I think she likes it too...she waved at herself in the mirror on the way out).

The 1970's Dorothy Hamill wedge...

No, she isn't going to have a haircut like I did when I was little...the short "boy cut"...although to my family it was known as the "Dorothy Hamill" style...and in my defense, my hair was always neat, clean and cute...and not long and stringy...I'm not a fan of stringy hair on little girls (long hair seems to frequently be stringy unless it is nice and thick).

(I will insert an old pic of me here)

Anyways, Brooklyn's hair is now evened up and super cute...we will let it continue to grow and just have her bangs trimmed from now on. My favorite part is the curl that she has (we think this is from her Daddy)...it curls so perfectly above each ear and looks like we used a curling iron...too cute!!

TaDa!!! Ok, Mommy save me!!

Ok, out of that silly seat...Mary Lou has stepped away and I'm back with Mommy. Phew, what a hard afternoon...but I feel like a cutie pie!!

Will try and post a non-fussy pic later so we don't have the snot flying and red eyebrows look going on...