Ginny's hair is long and blonde. She's like her brothers when it comes to her hair. All of our children started out as babies with fine blonde hair and pretty blues eyes to match. As each of them have grown their hair gets darker. Danny and I have brown hair so we consider that by the time they're adults their hair will be like ours.
On Monday the 21st I took Ginny to the beauty shop for the first time. It was late in the afternoon and we went to Supercuts in our small town. We didn't wait very long. One guy was getting his haircut when we came in. As the young blonde beautician cut his hair, she had a lengthy conversation about chocolate. After finishing and sweeping away the leftovers she said, "Who's next?" Ginny gladly but quietly said, "Me." The lady put a booster cushion in the seat and then Ginny climbed in. She put a cover up around my little girl and then asked how should it be cut. I told her to taper it in the front.
Danny wants Ginny's hair to grow long. For all her seven years I would just trim it from time to time. Then Ginny developed a habit. She would chew on the hair around her face. We kept trying to figure out something to help her stop but weren't successful. Finally, I decided Ginny and I should just go get our hair cut together. So there we were. The hair around Ginny's face which had been very uneven was now neatly tapered. I liked the technique the beautician used to get it that way. She would grab a lock of hair, hold it in her right hand and swing it around in front of the face. I guess this method gave the lock of hair a natural flow to it. Then she would cut with the scissors in her left hand straight up and down. After Ginny's hair was done, it was my turn and I got the same cut.
As I sat watching Ginny I wished I would've brought our digital camera. So instead of taking a picture I tried to freeze the image of Ginny's haircut in my head. While she sat there happily on her booster seat her little gray and white snow boots with the zipper in the front dangled down. She sat still. It was cute to note the irony of her tiny frame compared to the average size grown up who had just used the chair.