Ellie's "Self" Haircut

Well after 8 yrs it happened..........Ellie gave herself a haircut....yikes!!!! It happened on Tues night after soccer. We had gotten the kids to bed later than usual because of soccer and I heard Ellie get up out of her bed (I was in my room). I told her to go back in her bed and I thought she did...well evidently she didn't and had gone downstairs and got the scissors and cut her hair. I fell asleep without knowing and Dave came rushing in our room a couple hrs later yelling "Ellie cut her hair". He had found it when he went to check on her before he went to bed. What a mess. She literally cut about 7 inches and all I can think of is that she cut her ponytail out because it was pretty much cut across the entire back and there was clumps of hair in the bathroom trashcan. When she got up in the morning and I asked her why she did it she said "a bobby pin was stuck". What????? Are you kidding me???? So anyway needless to say the hair was chopped and I was devastated. She didn't seem to mind! I got her in to the hairdresser today and she was able to cut it and style it. It is so short. I keep saying it took 8 yrs to get it to the length that it was and then she chopped it off. She has literally only had 2 other haircuts her entire life because it is so curly and just shrinks up as it grows. Oh well---there are worse things in life and it will grow up. Let's hope it doesn't take another 8 yrs and let's hope she learned a lesson!!!

"Before" shot--she was at the hairdresser getting ready for her haircut