When Bella was 3 she went through a self haircut phase. She found scissors I didn't even know we had, hid behind the recliner, and worked in her pony tails. It was never so bad that we had to visit a salon and the phase was pretty short-lived, but it was one of Bell's many "DIY" projects. There was the lotion phase that involved her sneaking in the bathroom and opening a box of 12 different Bath and Body scented lotions and applying them all to the point of being slick. It takes multiple baths to get a kid non-greasy after such an event, the tub has to be scrubbed afterwards, and your kid still smells odd.
Yesterday, I discovered a new oddity. I was helping Bell rinse her hair after she washed it and noticed that one eyebrow looked odd. I though it was just mussed up from when I dumped water over her head. In fact, half her right eyebrow is mostly gone. There is a thin line at the bottom and a few stray hairs at the top and one half is there, but the most of the other half is just gone, leaving a strip of very white skin beneath. I wasn't mad - just amused and curious. I badgered her off and on all day - had she played in tape, with my razor, borrowed my tweezers? She adamantly refused to tell, maintaining that she did nothing and had no idea how it happened. Finally, I asked her if she would tell Jack. She said, "Yeah, I will tell dad next time we go camping because we always tell secrets when we camp." Ahah! I pointed out that she had just admitted to having done something, but she just grinned and walked off to get ready for bed.
I slept terribly last night - my school dreams have returned and my old hip bursitis kept me up most of the night, but I am up and ready for the last Friday of freedom. I plan to work on a project for my parents' birthday (or anniversary at the rate I am going). I need to get those work out DVDs going. And maybe I will sweet talk Bella out if her secret. I just hope her eyebrow grows back because she is funny looking right now.
Oh dear. I knew a woman whose older sisters held her down and waxed off her eyebrows when she was a kid. They never really grew back and she always penciled them in. Maybe you could 'scare' her into leaving them alone. I also went through the hair cutting phase. Wait...I'm still in that one.
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