Hair cut

I first convinced Mae to cut her hair short about a year and a half ago, to help other people tell the difference between Adi and her. When she looked in the mirror after that first cut, she pulled on the relatively long hair on top of her head and said, "Mom, you forgot to cut the top." Ever since then, she's been asking to have her hair cut like Daddy's. It seems like this has been partly related to 1) not wanting to have to brush it-- she has a very sensitive scalp and 2) the pretty colors on the different guards on Daddy's clippers.

We told her that people might think she was a boy, but she said, "I'll just tell them I'm a girl." And I've tried to impress on her how long it would take to grow out. It wasn't until I was relating this to a friend who suggested that, if we had done it a year ago, it could have grown out by now, that I realized we might as well try it. My thought is that she's well established in her new school now and, if she does start kindergarten next fall, this will give her time to have the hair cut and grow it out if she decides she doesn't like it.

So last weekend, we took that plunge. She had to change barbers since Dave is the expert at "boy" hair cuts.

Getting ready

The first cut

Almost done

Hamming it up