Wednesday January 16, 2008

Best Part of the Day-

The definite highlight of the day was watching Scarlet on the evening news.  Her preschool was making Valentines' for the soldiers in Iraq and Fox 6 was on the scene.  Interestingly Scarlet has been on t.v. 3 times in her 4 years and the first time was exactly 1 year ago when Fox 6 came to her preschool to do the exact same bit.   Last year she manhandled her way onto camera basically pushing a classmate aside to correct the reporter "we're not making Valentines' for the soldiers--they're for the TROOPS!"   

This time Scarlet must have comprehended that not all kids are on the news--at least not every day.  The whole family was giddy as we crammed together to wait and wait and finally scream "there you are!"  Liam knew something was up and kept clapping and saying "yay!"  Fun, fun, fun.

Worst Part of the Day-

Right after preschool, but before her television appearance, Scarlet ran upstairs claiming to need to use the bathroom.  She came down in record time with the entirety of her bangs lopped off.  All.  To the scalp.  Another 10 second amateur haircut (she's done this once before.)  It looks a bit like Charlize Theron's character in Monster.  Very late '80's dyke-ish--spiky top with long sides.  I simply ask her where she found the scissors and iterated why little girls cannot cut their own hair, blah, blah, blah.  Without responding "ok, mom" or "I know" or "I'm sorry", she plainly says "Well now you can see my baby blues!   And I don't need any barrettes." Yeah well...

Billy walked in an hour later and didn't notice.  When I hinted to him to take notice of "something different in her forehead area",  you could see the recognition in his face and then with a smile he said "I love it, Scarlet.  You did a good job."  

Sigh.  I can see her baby blues.