School Pictures, Hair, and Such

Here are Anya's school pictures for the year. As you can see, she's sporting the typical K-3 smirk-smile.

The class photo isn't great. The shadowing makes all the boys in the back row look like they've got mullets.

Initially, I thought it strange that they had picture day the first week of school. But at this point, I'm glad for it. . It's been helping us match names with the faces we've seen running around on the playground after school. Also, we have a normal enough picture of our kiddo, because....

Last week, Anya decided it was a good idea to cut her hair while she was at school. I noticed it as soon as we got home. On one side, she gave herself a nice mullet and extra bangs and on the other, cut off a few inches. Pretty bad. I really wish she let me take a picture of her hair like that so I could throw it up here. But she was too embarrassed. As she should have been. Her embarrassment was punishment enough. We went to the salon and the stylist did as much as she could to fix it. It's not a great cut, but one can only do so much when the kid leaves about 2 inches (from the scalp) on the front-side of her head. It will grow out. I'm relieved picture day is not this week.

I haven't been able to get an answer as to why she cut her hair. I figure it was just a whim. Most kids do it at some point. I probably did. I find it all pretty amusing.