The mullet is gone!!

Our sweet Moo. She has what they call Trichotillomania. ~She pulls her hair out. Sometimes it's worse than others...started out when she was a baby - she always had to wrap my hair around her fingers/hands - didn't pull it, but it was obviously comforted her. As she grew her own, she would often play w/hers - if she found hair on the floor (ew) - she had to wrap her fingers. She had her first haircut last July...a month into being 2 - and right after that (if you see the pictures, it was clearly an upsetting experience), the pulling started - clumps. The poor thing - whenever she got upset / tired / frustrated, you'd see her hand reach up & yank a clump out. She'd wake up with a handful. She looked quite bald for a while there.

~Well, apparently it's not altogether uncommon, so we were able to find some helpful information (THANK YOU TLC - trich.org!!) and tried several ways to curb her pulling. Slowly, but surely, her hair started filling in. Of course, she pulled the most on the top - evidently couldn't reach the back as comfortably, so when it grew, it got longer in the back. Our baby had a mullet. And ya know - I hated that thing - but I was NOT going to chance another upsetting haircut to spark any steps back in the progress we had made.

Anyway, one sweet, sweet day a couple weeks ago, the girls stayed w/Aunt Brie & our Madalyn actually ASKED her to cut her hair. She was very specific - no spray bottle - don't touch the front - just the back. And the mullet is a thing of the past! Maddy has an adorable little bob now...and she feels 'so pretty'. Thank you Aunt Brie! :)