Ella, and Jay and Chris went for a nature walk yesterday. But when Chris went one way, Ella decided to go the other way. Chris urged and then insisted that she follow him. Nope. Ella simply could not be convinced that the trail was better than bushwhacking through the brambles and Virginia Tickseed. Before Chris could reach her (she could navigate under this stuff faster than Chris could wade through it) she was profoundly stuck, unable to move forward, or any direction actually, because the Virginia Tickseed had caught a hold of her fine blond hair and would not let her go. She screamed for help and Chris freed her as best he could, but she came home with a head matted down with these stickers.
Two hundred and eleventeen Virginia Tickseed stickers, one deep conditioning treatment, one rattail comb, and one Sid the Science Kid episode later, here we are:
After an hour of dutifully pulling these stickers out one by one, I made sure Ella was singing, "I love my Mom, uh-huh, uh-huh, my mom is cool, uh-huh, uh-huh".
Hey! She's smiling after all of that! I would not be smiling after getting eleventy billion stickers stuck in my head. You must have done something right!
ReplyDeleteWOW, just wow. That is some serious stickerage (new word) going on in her fine hair. Good job, mama, for making it all better!
ReplyDeleteAnd, I love the funky little ditty in Sid the Science Kid, lol. Makes me want to dance a little to their song.
To be fair, this was taken this morning... She was NOT smiling last night when I was working on it. In fact, we had to appeal, cajole and eventually strong arm her, because she insisted on us not taking them out. She said they were her "pretties".
ReplyDeleteVirginia Tickseed: Nature's ponytail holders. Who knew?
Ha! Well, she'll leave those in..
ReplyDeleteElla has the best lines. Her pretties...ha!
You are a saint! If it was up to Chris, her hair would probably look alot more like his hair this morning.
ReplyDeleteHer smiling picture... priceless!
Aww, her pretties. That's so cute. At least she didn't panic that they were in her hair.
ReplyDelete"Virginia Tickseed: Nature's ponytail holders. Who knew?" BWAHAHAHA