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11/10/2003 Archived Entry: "baldy"

So, I've been examing my child's hairline for a couple days and noticing a nice amount of new growth. She's always had such thin and wispy hair that any signs of it thickening up are met with great joy. Today she was sitting on my lap and I was looking at what would be sideburns if she were a boy. Then I looked at it again. And again, as I compared it to the other side of her head. Finally I came to a conclusion that gave me a sickening feeling in my stomach. "Did you cut your hair?" to which the child got a very guilty look on her face and expressed much sorrow. I took her into the bathroom to really look at all her hair and found lots and lots was missing. She did it a couple days ago apparently. Yesterday her hair was sticking out in odd ways and I thought I just did a poor job with the hair spray. So all this "new growth" I've been noticing is actually her chopped hair. So much for getting thicker. Since this was the 2nd time this occured, her scissors are now my property indefinitely. Once is forgiven as all children do it sometime, but twice is inexcusable. So we rushed off to a new kids' salon to get it fixed. Tabitha was crying off and on all morning because she doesn't want short hair, but there was really no way around it. I assured her they would make her hair look very cute. I think they did a good job but Tabitha declared that she did not like it. I hope she gets used to it soon because we are going to have to keep it this length for a while until all the other parts catch up. She looks cute, but she doesn't look like my child. It was kind of odd every time I looked at her today, I felt like I was baby-sitting someone else's child. Part of it has to do with the way the stylist blow dried and styled her hair. I washed it myself tonight and let it dry naturally, so I'm sure tomorrow morning she'll look like her old self again. As for a picture, that will have to wait. My battery was dead today and by the time it was charged, I forgot to take a picture. I'll share as soon as I take one.
In other news, I'm on a room changing mission. I spent 4 hours today working on Tabitha's room and the play room. First I completely emptied Tabitha's room of everything but the 4 large pieces of furniture. Then I vacuumed every nook and cranny of her room for a real deep clean. Then I started rearranging toys between her room and the play room. I moved her craft table next to my craft table in the play room and then put up another shelf in there. I moved all the wooden blocks, train sets and Duplo's into the playroom and all the Barbie, Care Bear houses, tea sets and Princess stuff into her bedroom. I figured that since her room is decorated for her princess personality and the play room is decorated for her adventurer personality the toys in each room should match. I like the new set up, though I'm not 100% done. I never got her bed fully made. It is so hard to make it with it being a loft bed so I decided to wait until tomorrow when Chris can help me. Of course, I gained only two spots on the shelves and Christmas is a month away. I told Tabs today that she can't get any toys for Christmas becuase we have no where to put them, lol. She quickly informed me I was quite wrong :)
This evening I spent a bit of time finding pictures I could part with so I could put new pictures in the frames. I have something like 80 framed pics of my kid and no more wall space. So if I want to display new pictures, I have to replace old ones. But it is so hard choosing which ones, I love them all! I really need to make a scrapbook of just her professional pics. I'll add that to my to do list. Speaking of which, I need to get cracking on my Holiday cards. I've completed step one, but I have 5 more steps to go and considering I send 50 cards, that's a lot of steps! Maybe I should do a little now.