Peanut Butter Haircuts

(The title of this post is referring to a line we saw in a kid's show that says "No cuts, no buts, no coconuts" and Daddy Fantastic claims it was "No cuts, not buts, no peanut butter haircuts" when he was a kid. I don't know what a peanut butter haircut is, but we call Ava one all of the time. Or say she has "a lot of peanut butter in her haircuts" when she is being silly.)

Yesterday Ava had her very first haircut. We went to Little Locks, a kid's toy store and salon in the Bird Rock area of La Jolla.

I have always been out-of-place in La Jolla. It is a very upscale neighborhood with a lot of snooty people. Bird Rock is a little more forgiving with more families, but when I went to a restaurant/street fair event there a few months ago, I was pretty much the only person there who didn't have plastic surgery or a $2000 handbag.

My daughter is so cute (if I do say so myself), however, I was suddenly feeling very much like a star with a little princess. Ava stole the show in the short time we were there on the streets and inside the store.

I was so surprised with how well Ava did. The cut was very short-lived, the hairdresser was extremely fast, yet accurate and somehow managed not to cut Ava with all of her random jerky movements. Not too much was taken off, but it now looks a lot more evened out and polished, since before it was a big mop top. Ava was all smiles or just plain calm and concentrating except for the very end when she was getting her hair pulled into a little flipped pony on top.

(These videos aren't the best, I took it with my new iPhone 3GS and the quality is kind of meh)

The end (including crying)

I love this one, she looks like a doll.