Snip It Good!

If you haven't noticed from the pictures (or been too polite to notice), Willa's hair has been a scraggly mess! We've trimmed bits of it twice, but there was still a good 3-4 inches of thick mullet in the back. With all the different layers and the curls it always looked wispy and crazy. I've been putting off getting it cut because I like how long it is, but I finally had to admit defeat. A cute short hairstyle is better than an ugly long one.

We went to this children's  hair place called Snip Its. Overall, I don't think I will go there again. It was kind of a disappointment, and I think I could do just as good of a job by placing Willa in her high chair in front of the t.v. Still, it was a fun-ish experience for the first official haircut. Because of other errands and mishaps, we didn't get there until 5 pm and it was oddly located inside a grocery store (a upscale grocery store, but still) so those combining factors discombobulated Willa a little and she did not enjoy it so much (as you will soon see from her facial expressions).

She's got a death grip on an Elmo phone and a Dum Dum, poor thing was a little scared, but she didn't cry.

 All done, a little drunken expression on the face.

This isn't all the hair, just a few pieces that were together.

Here she is the next day. It's been hard to get a good picture of it, but it does look much better than it did before.

An unexpected side-effect has been a little more trauma at bathtime. Willa isn't used to her hair hitting her shoulders, especially when it is all wet and clumped together. After we wash her hair, she is very disturbed and keeps trying to itch around her shoulders or push the hair away from that area.