Braiding and scissors

On Saturday Joshua and Zara's school had a fun day. World Cup fun day to be exact. They were able to do a lot of fun things like face painting, crafts and there was even a bouncy castle. One of the hightlights for Joshua was a stall that sold plastic swords. He spent most of the morning running round with his friend Anguci having sword fights. It looked even more realistic when he had his face painted like a pirate. Zara's choices of the morning were to have her nails painted pink and to have a length of her hair braided. She was very patient for both activities. However, the patience didn't carry over into the next day. As we were getting ready for Church she told me that her braided hair hurt and she wanted me to cut it. I told her I would be able to help her in 5 minutes. Unfortunately our little independent daughter decided that Mummy's 5 minutes was too long and that she would deal with the issue herself. It wasn't 5 minutes later and she came into the bathroom where I was brandishing a pair of scissors and the cut off braid with her hair still inside the braid. Thankfully it wasn't a lot of hair gathered in the braid so you have to look quite closely see the tuft of hair left on her head. We explained to her that it wasn't a good idea to take scissors and cut her own hair and that she should leave that to Mummy. Simon and I did have a good laugh at the situation but Zara didn't find it quite so funny and got quite upset as she thought that everyone would be laughing at her hair. Thankfully no one noticed at Sunday school so the issue was long forgotton by her and so our happy go lucky little girl returned. Sorry we didn't take any photos. We would have been late for church otherwise and I am not so sure Zara would have been happy about it :)