EJ's First "Real" Haircut! (and other things)

Before the Haircut...

My poor little kiddo had this rash that was taking over her body...thankfully, it wasn't appearing to bother her too much, but when she started showing a fever, it was time to bring her in to the doctor.  As much as they could figure out, she had Sixth Disease (isn't that a funny name?) - this rash that develops with just about no aggravation to the child and not contagious (whew!), just red and blotchy all over her body.

This was after a trip to the doc - we stopped at a new playground and hung out for a little while.  

Probably didn't help her complexion that I had her in all pink, with her little, broken-out red face.  :(  Poor thing...it LOOKED painful.  Glad it wasn't!

I think this is cute...with the pigtail 'n' things.

Time for the Haircut!

She was a little stunned at how the whole thing works, but she was an ABSOLUTE ANGEL in the chair and for the lady...far better than I expected my lil' squirmy one to be.  It was precious.

I LOVE this lil' smirk...she looks like a cartoon face!  :)

"Don't cut so much," says Mommy!

Post-haircut...she was hard to get to sit still afterwards.

The stylist had to trim her bangs, so she actually DOES have bangs...I just pinned them back because they were in her eyes...you'll see in future pictures.

She's showing me her butterfly "sticker" (a.k.a. tattoo)  that she got for being such a good sitter during her haircut.  And, still, 1 week after her haircut, when people ask whether she got a haircut, she shows her hand and starts talking about her butterfly.  Poor thing - she's had a bath or two since then so it's been long gone. :(

All this GIRL STUFF - it's so exhausting!  :)

Look at those sweet curls...and such a LITTLE quantity of hair!

Later that day....

I left her alone painting WITH WATERCOLORS (even though this looks like acrylics!) for not even 7 minutes while I answered a work email, and this is what I came back to...plus a 10 foot trail of blue paint drops on the floor as she came my way.  :/ 

"See Mommy?  Blue hands!  It's on my legs, too!"

And...(sigh)...just moments later...after Mommy made her wash off the blue, this was the meltdown afterwards on the bathroom floor.
Does anyone else ever wish we could just throw our bodies down and have a fit?  OK, maybe not in our undies!  :)