The Aborted Haircut

 The before pictures (Samuel egged Shira on to not let us take a picture with all of her clothes properly placed)

And there was no point in an after picture, since the second the hairdresser approached her, Shira started crying and clinging to Steve.  Steve was the only one to get a hair cut that day.  Sorry honey, your 5 millionth haircut doesn't warrant a before or after picture.

The upside to the aborted haircutting mission is that Shira is keeping her end of the deal - if she doesn't want a haircut, she has to let us brush her hair every morning and at least put it in a ponytail.  Now she only looks like a ragamuffin some days because we're lazy rather than we're too beaten down to deal with the hysterical sobbing and chasing around the house that hair brushing used to require.