January 15, 2012

My baby is 13...

Yesterday Emma turned 13.  I have a teenager in the house.  How did that happen?

Craig surprised her yesterday with a great gift.  He took her to his very funky hairdresser for some highlights.  She has cut Craig's hair for 15 years and has cut Emma's hair and watched her grow up.  Eve's hair is either purple or blue and as a woman in her 60s she clearly has danced to her own drummer her whole life.

So what did Emma choose?  Blue.  She bleached out the bottom 1.5" of the ends and now they're electric blue.  What more could a teenager ask for?




She also got the more traditional stuff--charms for her bracelet, a sound dock for her ipod, balloon bouquet from her Grandfather and of course the slumber party with her best pals.  I think I'm more tired than they were from getting up to tell them to get to sleep.

It was all fun and Emma cleaned the main floor of the house yesterday (including vacuuming) so I think 13 will be fun.  I'm still in shock that she doesn't look like this anymore:

Emma Baby

Emma is one

Jan 15, 2012 11:02:20 AM | Home and Hearth, Kids

8 Comments

How proud you must be! The hair looks lovely - like a peacock! Good luck to you thru the teens!!! LOL!

Posted by: Sue H | January 15, 2012 at 12:15 PM

Happy birthday! And yes, this is SO familiar, especially now that my now-13-year-old (getting towards 14) is in high school (!!) and is nearly five inches taller than I am. How did that happen, again?

Posted by: Jocelyn | January 15, 2012 at 03:26 PM

Too cool! The hair is a super gift! And happy birthday to her a 100x over!

Posted by: June | January 15, 2012 at 03:33 PM

You know, that blue is attractive.

Posted by: elaine shanks | January 15, 2012 at 08:19 PM

That's pretty amazing! A teenage, wow... I do love the blue hair :)

Posted by: Emily HK | January 16, 2012 at 11:32 AM

That is a great blue, and I love where she put it! Very cool! Also, she still bears a lot of resemblance to her newborn self.

Posted by: Kathleen | January 16, 2012 at 11:30 PM

That is a great shade of blue. I sometimes wish I still could have blue and purple hair. They are great shades if completely unnatural.

Posted by: Seanna Lea | January 18, 2012 at 10:46 AM

Blue highlights are so cool!

Posted by: Knittripps | January 22, 2012 at 08:10 AM

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