I took Kade for a much needed haircut after school today. On the way in, Liv announced that she wanted a haircut too, and given her straggly-baby-fine mullet…I didn’t argue. However, I did not have a camera with me in order to chronicle my baby girl’s very first haircut.

She was a pro, sitting there with her cape on, all excited about being a “big girl…just like Kade.” Thinking back to the screaming fit that was Kade’s first haircut experience just made me smile, and I can’t even begin to tell you the flood of relief I got when I realized that now I don’t have to argue all morning with little miss “no pigtails today, mama.”

I pulled the camera out when we got home and managed some shots. And for some reason, it just hit me…my kids are big and grown up and so far from being babies that I feel almost panicked that it’s happened too fast and I’ve missed something.

You can look at those little faces every day, but I guess it takes a photo to really “see” them.