We are hair-cursed

My husband warned me over the phone before I got home that he had given my two-year-old a haircut.

"She was complaining that her bangs were in her eyes," he explained. "So I decided to trim them for her. But it was crooked so I kept trying to even it out and then..." He trailed off. "Well, you'll see."

This is a photo of my daughter's bangs. They are about one inch from the roots and the bangs are cut so wide that you can see her temples. All this just as her mullet (courtesy of her older brother Benjamin -- see previous post entitled 'Can hair be called "crowning glory" when it's a mullet?', June 26, 2007) was starting to grow out. I'm not guiltless either. In a previous post, I confessed to cutting a loonie-sized bald spot into my son's hair last year (see 'The unkindest cut of all', March 16, 2006 post).

Somebody take the scissors away from my family.

Mistakes are okay

Hooray, hooray!
Mistakes are okay
We learn from them
And we change our way!

This is a rhyme that my son learned in his Kindergarten class. He recites it to cope with his frustration -- with a tower of blocks he's building, with his little sister who can't seem to stop following him, with a drawing that hasn't turned out the way he envisioned.

It works so well for him that he's suggested I use it for myself.

"Mommy, when you get fusterrated, you can just say it and you'll feel better!" he suggested.

The Princess Test

Questions
1. What is Sleep Beauty's actual name?
2. What is Beauty's (of Beauty and the Beast) actual name?
3. What is the name of the heroine in Twelve Dancing Princesses?
4. What are the names of Cinderella's stepsisters?
5. Name the Seven Dwarfs.

Answers
1. Princess Aurora or Briar Rose
2. Belle
3. Genevieve
4. Drizella and Anastasia Tremaine
5. Sleepy, Dopey, Grumpy, Sneezy, Doc, Happy, Bashful

If you answere four or more correctly, you have a child who is obsessed with everything princess, like I do. I don't know how I managed to give birth to a child who would eventually want the princeses version of everything (clothing, food, books, movies, underwear), but I am optimistic that this will end soon. Other moms with daughters older than mine tell me to make myself comfortable in Princessdom -- my little girl is only two-and-a-half years old and this phase can last five or more years.

Help. Me.

My eyes have it

"When I grow up, I'm going to wear a princess dress and have 'no-good eyes' and wear glasses like you, Mommy!" proudly announced my 2-1/2 year old daughter Lauren the other day.

Hmmpf. So my daugher thinks I have "no-good eyes," does she? Well, I'm getting eye surgery tomorrow (read: I am very scared!) to remedy that. Lauren will have to be a princess with no-good eyes and glasses without me.