proud of my girl.

my sweet daughter has been growing her hair out for the last year or so.  when she was in preschool last year, her friend cut her hair and gave it to locks of love, and i asked hadley if she wanted to do the same.

she said yes, so we've been growing her hair out ever since.

every time she says she wants a haircut, i have to remind her of why she's growing it out.

when we measured last night, we realized it had met the 10-inch minimum requirement!

so this afternoon, we chopped it off!

before and after:

the initial reaction was shock, followed by lots of tears:

even right before i cut it i asked her (for the millionth time) if she was really ready to cut it and she kept saying yes.

i know how sensitive she is, and i knew it would be quite the shocker for her.  that is a lot of hair she chopped off.

after a while (and a bath) she finally started getting used to her haircut.  she carried a mirror around with her all afternoon to keep looking at it.

i have to say, she looks pretty darn cute.

i even heard elsa tell hadley that she looked beautiful.

and elsa was right.

{her hair is not uneven---she got lucky and got the one-sided-hair-flip, courtesy of her mama}

i'm so proud of her!

today is show-and-tell day at school and she brought her hair.

she's excited.