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Pigtails

Unfortunately, Zoe inherited the Scandinavian straight hair from my mom's side of the family. I would love to keep her stylin' with a pixie cut, but the maintenance it would require at this stage of the game is not really manageable. Derek has actually started cutting Silas' hair, but we're not sure how that would work out with a girl.


So we ended up deciding a few months ago to let Zoe's hair grow out. As her bangs are getting longer, we're struggling with how to best keep them out of her face. And for those of you who know and love Zoe, you might be able to guess that she's not the most cooperative toddler with having her "hair done".

We've tried barrettes,

Cecilia did a special Mother's Day hairdo when she visited
And headbands,



We've had the best luck with the headbands. Eventually, though, she pulls things out of her hair within a little while and she ends up looking like this.


Today we decided to try pigtails.


You can only guess how that went...




She stayed mad for most of the morning. I'm beginning to think that growing her hair out was a bad idea! Pixie cut coming soon??!!

And it's too bad, because the pigtails were SO DARN CUTE!

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