First Haircut

Our big girl is growing up. *Sniff*sniff* After much discussing and debating over Ryane’s “mullet-do” she was growing, Matthew and I took Ryane for her very first haircut at almost 16 months old. We loaded her up, grabbed the camera and off we went like any other errand. We get there and Ryane is all looking in the mirror and watching another lady get her hair blow-dried – Ryane does like her blow dryers! Then, it was her turn. The young lady asked us if she was going to set by herself or on our lap. What? I never thought about it. We said we’ll try her setting by herself first….ummm…wrong! She wouldn’t set down and proceeded to do her own "arch the back and noodle-leg" dance. Fine! She will set on daddy’s lap then (mommy was there to run the camera of course)….ummm….wrong!! I was at the point of just calling it all off and trying again later. We did finally convince her to leave the cape on and that she could just stand in daddy’s lap and look into the mirror. She agreed. Yeahh—we were off! Once the lady started cutting, Ryane had a calmness and seriousness about her which was nice. Almost to the point it was so relaxing, she could have fallen asleep. Now, I will say we didn’t actually get a lot cut, just brought the back up to a shorter layer and evened it up with another layer that was growing in. When she was close to being finished Matthew mentioned how much older she looked and I agreed, which brought a little water to the eyes and lump into my throat.