This year we decided to stretch the holidays a bit and for the last few days before Christmas, we let the kids open one gift every day. December 23 was one such day. Kardynn picked out a gift from Annika.
She was delighted to unwrap a Hello Kitty makeup/toiletry kit. The girls immediately started to play with it but then they moved on to other things. They were using post-its and making "beards" and taking turns pretending to be Santa. We watched several performances of Santa interacting with little girls. (In this case the "little girl" is bigger than Santa.)
Eventually we encouraged the kids to take showers. But after a while, Dwight and I realized that it had been quiet for too long. I went off to investigate and found two little girls locked in the kids' bathroom - never a good sign.
They had taken the three bottles of Hello Kitty nail polish and decided to "highlight" Kardynn's hair. I only took one photo before Dwight suggested that I was giving the wrong message by taking photos. So I have no pictures of the ensuing buzz cuts...which probably would have been tricky anyway since I became somewhat emotional watching their beautiful tresses falling to the floor. But I'm getting ahead of myself, what you can't see here are the additional "highlights" on the sides, not to mention the additional mess of nail polish that was unveiled when we removed the bun. It was definitely impressive. That one blue streak, for example, went the entire length of her hair.
I spent quite a bit of time reading online about how to get nail
polish out of hair and most of the suggestions were for nail polish
remover (which I did NOT want to put on my baby's sensitive scalp).
Dwight tried to get it off with water but that didn't do much on the
thick glob of nail polish. We thought about just leaving it, and
letting her have multi-colored hair, but that didn't seem like a good
idea either. So eventually we decided to go with the second most
popular suggestion on the Internet - cut off the hair. We had warned Annika that if Kardynn's hair ended up having to be cut
off, we would cut off her hair as well. Initially she was enthusiastic
about the idea but when she saw my reaction, as it was happening, she
started to get second thoughts. I'll admit, it didn't really seem like
*that* big of a deal until I saw the hair falling to the floor and then
it seemed like the worst idea we'd ever had.
But, hey, it's just hair. It will grow back. And on the bright side, I don't think we have to worry about these two putting nail polish in their hair ever again. Let me tell you that seeing those two girls with their bald heads makes me incredibly grateful for two healthy - albeit mischievous - little girls.
