Sally shaved off almost all of her left eyebrow on Monday. Tom noticed it first, and from his worried tone, I thought she’d been punched in the face by the stairs on her way down from her room. But she was just “pretending” with daddy’s razor, and was as surprised as anyone else when most of her eyebrow came off. I laughed and said, “you’re lucky you didn’t cut yourself.” Tom told me to get an eye makeup pen STAT (he doesn’t know what they’re really called, and I don’t own anything resembling that anyway).
He was so concerned that she’d get teased by the kids at school. I told him I was teased daily for most of my school career, and I turned out just fine. (Anyway I’m not buying an eye makeup pen, or whatever they’re really called, to cover up a whacked pretend shaving job.)
Today he called to ask how her Biography Presentation went at school. I told him she did great, not to worry. It was simple enough to ambush the other kids in her class beforehand with a razor so she’d fit right in.
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My son is getting ready for biography night here. He is Einstein and (since we already went 3 months too long for cutting his hair) we’re growing it out to make the demonstration all the more realistic.
My daughter once ended up with a large round bald spot right at the front hairline. I had to part her hair backwards from the cowlick and a little too far over for a year as the hair grew back in long enough to make bangs. So, I guess I’m giving you my “kid makes themselves look strange and you deal with it and hope they learn some sort of lesson” commiseration.
I will post what makes me feel accomplished on a day where I actually accomplished something.
Jane Reply:
April 1st, 2010 at 8:51 am
Well, I admit, some of those accomplishments are pretty rad (and rare), and I should’ve confessed that yesterday was actually the fourth day in a row that I DIDN’T teach Susan a reading lesson, despite fairly-good intentions.
(Maybe when I wrote it I still thought I’d catch up in that area? But, no.)
haha! I watched the video first and then after reading through the post, I had to watch the video again for the eyebrow (or lack thereof). I hadn’t even noticed! Save your money on the makeup pen.
Jane Reply:
April 1st, 2010 at 8:52 am
Yeah, her eyebrows are so thin and light, anyway, I don’t know that I would’ve even really noticed if Tom hadn’t been so concerned. He’s cute.
LOL, one of my twins took a little chunk out of his knee the other day with daddy’s razor. He didn’t cry, he just looked really confused. LOL By the way, it’s an eyebrow pencil and I’ve got a couple extra. My eyebrows are lighter than my hair, so…..
LMAO young 6 took a razor to his rear when he was about 4…kept asking what happened and finally discovered he took my razor to it…he survived and she will to. its all good.
steff