Bound to Happen

I think I knew it was bound to happen but I guess I didn't want to believe that it would.

Caleigh loves her hair.  She has always had tons of it (since birth).  At six months I could put her hair in one large "Pebbles" style ponytail or even in two sizable pigtails!

She did get her bangs trimmed a couple of times a year and the ends trimmed up by her aunt Chelsea, aka Chachi.  But other than that, she never had any desire to do anything with her hair except "grow it long like Rapunzel."  The longer it grows, the more work it is for me. 

It's more washing, conditioning, drying, styling, etc.  But it has always been so pretty.  It is a light brown color with natural blonde highlights that people would have to pay gobs of money for in the salon.  Hers is just what God gave her.  I guess I adore her hair about as much as she does.

So, that fact made this event quite mortifying for me.  I walked in our office where Caleigh was seated at her small table doing some "crafts" as she calls them.  I looked down at her and only halfway inquisitively asked her if she cut her hair.  She brushed my question off with a very quick "No."  I made her stand and look at me and to my horror I saw that she had cut off a rather large chunk of hair from one side of her head while part of her hair was in a ponytail. 

I was almost in tears.  I did not want to believe that she would do something like that.  She has always treasured the time she gets to go see Chachi and sit in the salon chair and talk to her aunt as she gets her hair cut.  Now, she had cut that same hair herself!  She became very sullen and upset when she saw that I was not happy with her handiwork.

I took a picture and immediately sent it to Chachi pleading for help.  I knew it was probably way less worse than it felt to me but I still felt it warranted professional help.  She was gracious enough to ease my fears the very next day. 

Thankfully, Chachi was able to make layers around her face and the length was preserved.  The shortest layers no longer fit into a single ponytail and Caleigh has continued to try to grow out her bangs.

After all was said and done, she let me snap a few more pics of her new hairstyle.  Looking at these two pics makes my heart melt.

 

No matter if she has the hair the length of Rapunzel or is completely bald, I LOVE HER! And, I knew it was bound to happen, I just didn't want to believe it!