Mallory's First Haircut ... EVER.

Well. She's almost three.
Her hair is long.

People often think she's older than she is solely based on the length of her hair. Weird, right?

My cousin was coming over to cut Casey's hair, so we threw around the idea of Mallory's first haircut. Her hair is gorgeous. I love it. It's thick. It rarely gets tangled. It air dries flawlessly. If she goes to bed with wavy hair, it's perfectly straight when she wakes up. Casey always jokes it's the kind of hair girls will be jealous of when she's older.

Anyway, decision time. Cut it. It will grow back. After looking back at pictures of her shoulder length hair from a year ago, we wrapped her up in a cape and went for it.

The first cut.
GASP.

Look at that curl.

It's been three years, we had to cut it eventually.
(I keep telling myself that.)

Entertained by Daddy's phone.

Just finishing up.

Super cute!
(It looks crooked here ... I promise it's not.)

The celebratory "sit still" popsicle.

It was a little sad at first,

but I really, really love it.

And now we shouldn't need to cut it until she's four. :)

Hair trouble

At least once a day Mallory makes her way to the bathroom, opens the drawer with all my stuff in it and pulls out my round brush. She's obsessed with it. Within the last couple months she tries to "brush" her own hair with this brush or any other comb we have lying around.

I guess I should teach her it's better to take your ponytails out first. This was an unfortunate incident the other night.

they call it bed head.

this one's for you, katie.

Mallory's Many Hairstyles...

The obvious. Pig tails. Don't worry, peeps, I didn't leave her unattended on the counter in the bumbo.

Don King??

This is Daddy's favorite...he calls it her "Bozo in the Grand Prize Game"...we could comb it down after taking the pig tails out, but what fun would that be?

Hot Mess

This is another hair picture for Aunt Mo. (I can hear Finley saying...Mama...I a hot mess.)

HAIR!!!

Yes, she was born with all of that hair.

Yes, she ended up rubbing some off in the back and on the sides. It's finally starting to grow back on the sides... ...and it never stopped growing on top.

A clippy bow worked for a while...
The solution her aunts have been waiting so long for...



a real ponytail.
And we can't forget the bow!!!
And for her next trick.........PIGTAILS!!

Tummy Time

LOOK at all that hair! It's getting longer in the front and will be in her eyes soon...

Mallory did flip from her tummy to her back (twice) last week, but she hasn't done it since.

Mallory and I had company...

Snapshots

Mallory has SO much hair they had to wash it TWICE in the hospital when she got her first bath and I washed it again a couple days after coming home ... she LOVED it!

Sleeping Angel Baby
First bath at home