Triple Our Flakes: What was I thinking?

Rachel had her first hair cut today. She and Sophia's hair has been growing so fast and has been in their eyes for weeks. I've been using pony tails to keep their hair out of their sweet little faces. Recently, Rachel started to pull her pony tail out. She's done it a couple of times when we've been driving too, and I have no idea where those little rubber bands went. She is not a big eater, so I'm about 99.99999999% sure she didn't eat them. Since I can't have her randomly pulling little rubber bands out of her hair, it was time for a cut to keep the hair out of her little brown eyes!

Here is her "before" pic!

We thought we were brilliant when we decided to just cut her hair ourselves. I went out and bought scissors with rounded tips just in case Rachel moved her head.... we don't want to go poking eyes out... LOL... Turns out, cutting a 14 month old's hair is NOT SO EASY.

Bob was holding her head still and I was doing the cutting....Although, I should call it butchering! It was so crooked. I kept trying to "fix" it, but I just made it worse and worse as you can see!!!!!

Here is Rachel, with her cracker in her mouth (that I gave her to keep her sitting still hehe...)...... saying.. Doh! Mommy, what did you do?

I was so mad at myself. Why did I think that I could cut hair? I started thinking about all the pictures I'd be taking of the girls tomorrow on Easter and....oh my... her poor hair. It was around 4:30 in the afternoon on a day before a holiday! I wasn't sure what to do. So after freaking out for about 5 minutes, I called the kids hair salon that is so close to our house that we could walk there. Bad news.... They were closing at 5pm. Good news... They were sympathetic to my panicked voice and told me to come right over since I could get there within 5 minutes.

Oh and I'm a bad mommy........When I put Rachel in her car seat, I smelled poop but didn't have a minute to spare to change her diaper. Ugh...... We got to the salon 10 minutes before they were closing. Whew! I wanted to hug the girl who fixed Rachel's hair for me. Most people would be so annoyed to have someone come in at last minute 10 minutes before closing time before a major holiday, but our stylist was absolutely wonderful!

Rachel was such a good little sport! (poopy diaper and all... lol) She sat still and just smiled and flirted with the girl who was doing her hair.

Here's a pic of Rachel's bangs..... all straight and nice! A little shorter than I wanted, but that is MY fault.