Mariah's New 'Do

Mariah is blazing new trails in the 5th grade... dark highlights, or lowlights, or whatever you call them. I thought maybe she'd seen someone else's and liked it, but no, turns out she's the first. The one I thought would be a box-blond all her days, embraced her emerging beautiful brunetteness. The only obstacle? Low on funds. The rule here is you have to pay for the 'lights, mom pays for the haircut. I suggested she take over Gib's household chore chart he just finished for his merit badge because it wasn't hard to do and it sure was helpful to me and I'd pay her $5 a week for 6 weeks. Her response? "Can I think about that?" She phoned a friend and came back to me with this great idea to raise money for her highlights instead...."Can I have a carwash?". So, finding this to be very humorous and I can't wait to tell Lori how Mariah planned to pay for her services, I explain that usually people hold car washes to raise money for a good cause, such as a church youth group camp or girl scouts fundraiser....not so much for a single girl to raise money for her own hair! Lori thought it was a hoot and it just might have worked because there's alot of women out there who get how beauty ain't free! In the end, Mariah came to school with me during Fall Break and spent 4 hours helping me sort through the preschool library. We must have found over 100 books to donate to the Good Will that were collecting dust and taking up real estate we just don't have. Because Mariah was there out of the goodness of her heart, as we were leaving, I told her she had been such a good worker and had such a nice attitude that half her highlights were taken care of. Did she want to finish by vacuuming and taking out the trash and litterboxes for the next 3 weeks? No. She didn't. She had some allowance and she was seeing alot of leaves turning colors that would then fall off the trees and need to be raked. She's pretty sure she can make $7 doing that! Anything but cleaning!!!!

Here's the Big Day:

She didn't want me to take pictures until I told her each one I blogged was worth $1 toward her highlights!
Taryn didn't think that was fair.

Mohawk Mariah

(kinda scary that it has a nice ring to it, huh?!)

Public Humiliation Vs. $1.00

TA-DAAAA!!

You can't see it in this photo, but all the hair underneath was highlighted too, so when she has her hair forward over her shoulders, the ends are darker brown.

Yep, she's a cutie! And she makes us laugh!