Crazy Hair Day

A few weeks ago Alexis kept telling me about Crazy Hair Day at school. I must have thrown away the paper with the details. Since I know she wouldn't make it up I called the school and asked them when it was. When the lady said she didn't know...she quickly asked the Principle who was nearby. She said, "I'm sorry, ma'am but we don't have a crazy hair day this week."

I thought it was weird. But Alexis was insistent. However, I wouldn't be seeing the teacher again to ask her since I would be working the next 2 days. On Thursdays, Chad get's Alexis ready and off to school seeing as I have patient's starting at 6:30am. But I do get off work in time to pick her up from school.

I was walking to the kindergarten gate and that's when I saw. Her class. Everyone had freaky crazy hair-do's.

Moms started coming up to me and saying: "We were so excited to see what you of all people would do with your daughters hair. Did you forget?"

I felt so bad. I did research. But not enough. Turns out just the Pre-K was having crazy hair day. I knew Alexis was going to be SO sad.

She walked up to me with her one pony tail. (Pulled straight back..with the front starting to fall out of the rubber band.) Her head down. Shoulder's slouched. "I told Dad it was crazy hair day! He didn't believe me."

It was so sad. So many mother's heard. Even the teacher and she just looked at me so sad for Alexis. So the motherly-instinct shot through me...

"Alexis, I know everyone's hair looks crazy...but did you tell everyone that YOUR DAD did your hair today. That's crazy. Dad's never do hair. I bet no one else's Dad did their hair. And yours did. NOW THAT'S CRAZY!"

The teacher joined in on the excitement. But Alexis wasn't having any of it. She just looked at me with that pathetic look and said, "That's not crazy!"

I tried to make it better. But it's true...it was a pathetic shot at turning the disappointment around. I guess it's hard for a 5 year old to see how crazy it is for a Dad to do your hair when it's done by him EVERY Thursday.

So there you have it. I don't have it all together. If I did I would have known and could have done her hair the night before. But I missed the boat. At least there's a crazy hair day every year. We won't miss that again. I guarantee it!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Ok...so we are late at posting. But I wasn't late on the 4 leaf clover hair-do...

I kind of liked the 3 leaf clover better but what kind of a Mom would I be if I didn't send my daughter to school with a little luck on St. Patty's Day?

Double Heart Pony Tails

She looked pretty dang cute leaving for school today.

Once again, copied it from this girl.

Twist Back into Braids

Success. Alexis loves it.

Got this cute hairstyle from here.

Star Part Puff Braids

I love doing my daughter's hair and this year I have been blog stalking this amazingly talented mom at She Does Hair. Holy cow. Her creations are amazing. Now that Alexis hair is getting longer I can finally start doing more things with it. So I'm going to start sharing pictures with you so I can get a collection of things I do to Alexis' hair on my blog.

I really like this. I actually did it before church, despite my husbands, "Amber, don't do something that takes forever..we'll be late!" groan. (We weren't late, hah!) This picture was taken Monday night before we went to the pumpkin patch. Just a few touch ups with hair spray. You can see what it looked like from the front in those pictures. It stayed in for 3 days! That's why taking the time to do their hair is so much fun. Take the time and you only have to do it every other day...or even every 3rd day! Click Here to see how to do this.
PS: Her newest posts give step by step tutorials on how to do every princess hair style in the book: Belle, Cinderella, Tinkerbell, Jasmine...all of them. And they look so much like the real thing!