Benny in his birthday suit before the trim.
The new do.
Only a few people ever called him a girl. And although I'm a little sad that the curls are gone, it had to happen. I mean, I'm not even really good at doing my little girl's hair, so after bath when it was time to brush out Ben's tangly knotted curly fro and he was having fits about it, I realized I didn't even have to be fighting that battle! "Chop off the locks!" I thought. So that's what I did. I put a show on, filled up my spray bottle, and went for it! Don't look too closely. Curls are forgiving, though. I had fun pretending like I knew what I was doing. I kept the scissors out all day and kept fixing pieces that were too long. I imagine I'll be finding pieces of Lucy's hair on the floor now since she watched me cut Ben's hair. That's kind of her thing.
