Violet's Hair

I'm afraid it's getting close to that time. I must keep the tears back. This girl's hair has been utterly amazing from the beginning. We've never had the heart to cut it. Ever. (Except when she gave herself that bangs trim last year, ugh...)

We don't want to cut it, but honestly it's becoming too much to handle. My fingers hurt after braiding such thick, long hair (thanks, Mexican genes). And she can never wear it down because it gets so tangled and can never keep a curl for very long- it's just too heavy. So all that beautiful hair is just hidden away in braids most of the time anyway.

Even having it down in pigtails, like the photo above, gets into so many tangles. It's rarely worth all the untangling (hence the braids).

And I have to use a JAZILLION bobby pins to keep it in something like this^^.

So right now the very tips reach the back of her knee. Sigh... She's currently not happy about the idea of cutting it. So we'll let her enjoy it for a little bit longer. But I will always enjoy the memories.

Violet at about 4 months old.
Ivy is currently about the same age and I call her "baldy".