Miss M gets an actual haircut

Miss M has school pictures today. I used this event as my opportunity to finally get her haircut.  She needed it. She really doesn't have that much hair but the hair she does have needed trimmed up in the back and around her ears. I have cut her bangs a time or two but I wasn't daring enough to put scissors near her ear and hope she didn't move.

There are some parents at Miss M's school who take their kids to a kid-friendly place. They have the cutesy cars to ride in/drive and televisions with a lot of television shows to choose from and watch.  I was terrified. I have seen Miss M eat people alive when they get in her personal space. I essentially promised her a pony.

 She insisted that Chilly - from Doc McStuffins - go with us.

We get there early. She plays with the toys in the waiting area which include a train table and a lot of trains. We are already winning with the train table. They also have suckers. Sure. Eat as many as you want. She really only had one. She got two but I ended up eating one. 

Edith (her hairdresser) came to get her. She didn't cry or scream or tell me she didn't want her haircut. She let me put her in the car and Edith let her pick whichever show she wanted. Miss M saw Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and was sold. She sat there and watched her show without making a fuss at all. She would look in the mirror occasionally and see that Edith was working on her hair but didn't seem to care. 

After her haircut was over Edith put a "clippy" in her hair. It was hard to get it in and get it to stay b/c she doesn't have much hair and her hair is so fine. I also told her I would buy her some shampoo. She got pink shampoo with a princess on it just like she's a princess, per Miss M.

They put fairy dust (glitter) in her hair before we left. 

And then we went to the grocery store to buy her candy corn because that's what she chose as her treat if she was good.  I gave her the choice of a cupcake, ice cream, candy corn or something else. She chose candy corn (and it wasn't even the last choice).  Dang it. She might be a genius since the ice cream and cupcake are gone within an hour where the candy corn will last a few days.  I need to find the trick-or-treat candy corn that's in the individual packages.  This morning Andrew told her she could have some candy corn if she went to the bathroom. She got up, went to the bathroom, then demanded her candy corn.  Last night she asked for candy corn so I told her she had to eat her dinner first. She tried to claim she was done with dinner so I told her she had to eat a piece of chicken. She ate her chicken and then demanded candy corn. Today at lunch she ate a few bites of carrots (which she just ended up spitting out in a napkin) and then demanded candy corn. Game over little girl. You don't get candy corn every time you do something you're supposed to do.