my little shirley temple

i love Ella's straight hair...because mine is curly...and whenever I blow-dry her hair it looks so pretty and soft and it's done in 5 minutes. although she likes it too, every once in a while she wants curls. so, we put sponge curlers in her hair to sleep in . i try to just do them loosely on the ends, but she insists the curlers go up farther so her hair gets really curly...for those of you with girls you know they don't back down too easily...

so here's the before...

the during....

and the after...

she couldn't wait to get to school in the morning to see if her teacher would "recognize" her. oh, and the whole reason she wanted curly hair was "to look pretty for her 6th grade buddy because tomorrow is fun friday where we get to see our buddies...so i want to look pretty for them!".

i tried to sneak in some fluffing into the curls but this was the look i got....

and then she got over it and skipped her way to the car so thrilled with her new look for the day.

my little shirley temple...