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Last Saturday, I needed a haircut, badly.  We'd been trying for months now to convince The Pumpkin to let us cut her hair so it wouldn't be in her face all the time, but hadn't been successful up to that point.  However, I figured that having her come along and watch me wouldn't hurt, and might even do the trick, so all three of us went into the Great Clips on California at Stockdale.

The Pumpkin's hair was slow growing in the beginning, and thin and fine, but now it reaches her midback, and (before last Saturday) she was always brushing her hair out of her face.  It doesn't help that she rarely keeps her "pretties" (any assortment of rubberbands and clips) in her hair for more than a few hours at a time.  But no amount of playing the "Look, your friends x, y, and z all have bangs and they don't have to brush hair out of their eyes, don't you want to do that?" game seemed to move her.

But when we got to Great Clips (my first time there too), she immediately started watching an older girl getting her hair cut.  The woman cutting my hair was extremely friendly and talked to her while she watched me get my hair cut too.  When my turn was done, we asked The Pumpkin if she wanted to try, and miracle of miracles, she said yes.  She sat up on the booster seat, let the woman put that tarp thing around her, and didn't flinch or anything at the spray bottle, the scissors, any of it.  She was fascinated by the first lock of hair cut that we grabbed and saved and wanted to hold it.  When she was done, she grinned at herself in the mirror and asked for a balloon.

Since then, she tells everyone she sees that she got a haircut, and even talks about getting another one, maybe even doing more than bangs next time and trimming some of the back.  So, one milestone done, a zillion to go.

And the other cool thing?  Great Clips is one of RaisingBakersfield.com's Parent Perks advertisers.  Every month, our vendors offer our community members a different discount or deal--all you have to do is print out our Parent Perks discount card and show it.  So not only did get we both get nice haircuts and The Pumpkin got her first ever, but we got them at a substantial discount.  So check out what our advertisers have to offer and come back often for the latest deals.