Friday, March 13, 2009

"Turning Point in My Life History..."

Rosie proudly says that today's been a turning point in her life history... her hair has been 'rescued from the clutches of brown.'

Yep. My kid has purple hair, courtesy of her older sister.

What I think is rather wonderful about it is how deeply overjoyed she is - she really, really hates being thought of as ordinary in any way and is in ecstacy over such a reaffirmation of her self-image. I'm seeing this upsurge of pride and confidence that I hadn't expected.

"If she'd been a rabbit," said her sister, "she'd have been doing 'helicopters' on the lawn." For anyone without a pet rabbit, that's when they're so overjoyed about something that they jump vertically and spin in the air with their ears whipping 'round like helicopter rotors.

I just asked her to do two pages of handwriting practice, which usually results in a good deal of carrying-on and moaning... she didn't bat an eyelash. Grabbed the pages and found a place to work. LOL!