First Hair Cut

Today Esme and I went to Eden Prairie Center with Grandma Gini and Uncle Len.  The mall has a great toddler play area that Esme loves.

I'm not sure that Esme really appreciated Len's "warming up the tires" in the parking lot. :)  It looks a little bit like she's giving him the evil eye!

We let Esme play at the play area for quite awhile but it didn't take long for her to decide that she wanted to ride the quarter rides just outside the entry of the play area.  It was pretty funny to watch her steering and driving.  She was having a blast before we even put the quarters in the machine!

But as soon as the car/truck/hot dog stands started moving she was a little unsure of herself and she wanted to hold Uncle Len's hand.  And she was not about to let go of it!

Our next adventure was getting Esme's hair cut.  There is a Kids' Hair right by the play area.  Very smart (even though I'm pretty sure the apostrophe in their name is in the wrong place?).  I have known that she needed a haircut for a long time now, but I was nervous.  Why?  Because when I put Esme's hair in pig tales and wet her hair down she always hates it.  I also didn't know how she would do sitting in the chair.  Of course she did great!  It certainly didn't hurt that they had a Strawberry Shortcake video (or really any video for that matter since she has no idea who SS is!)

She looks like such a big girl!!!

She did great for everything except the hair dryer.  She hated that.

 The stylist was nice enough to put a pretty braid in Esme's hair.

After she got down she grabbed her sucker and played Miss Cool, walking around the mall like she was "all that"!  I guess maybe she is!