Hair, Paper, Scissors

Sort of punk.

Fans, we have a rule at Casa Blanca: scissors and markers are used with and on paper only.

You all know where this is heading already, don't you?

We recently moved all scissors to a high kitchen cupboard such that the bambini must ask for help if they would like to use a pair. When this rule was announced, Joe protested: "Why?????"  Julie replied that she wasn't convinced everyone understood that scissors were only to be used to cut paper and paper derivatives. He protested, again: "I do!!!!!" Julie hissed, "Not. You." He got it. Finally.

Clara last had a hair cut two months ago. (Julie was wondering if she could skip a month between trips to the salon.) About two weeks ago, she thought to herself that she really couldn't. Birdie's hair was looking jagged and laying funny, and then Julie shrugged it all off. Not long after, she was helping Birdie pick up her room when she discovered a nest of blond wisps in Birdie's Frozen lunch box. And it all came together, Fans. It all came together. Julie's suspicions were confirmed when she curled Birdie's hair for spring picture day and thus had to deal with all kinds of oddly placed layers, clearly the work of an amateur.

Birdie denied any involvement of course, laying blame at the feet of an anonymous boy in her class. Naturally. Julie took her queue from the ladies on the front of the lunchbox and let it go. But she rounded up the scissors and exiled them to a kitchen cupboard.

The markers are destined to go the way of the scissors as just this morning, Clara colored the inseam of on leg of her leggings with yellow highlighter. Julie spied the evidence as the Birds were walking, as fate would have it, to get Clara's haircut. Clara was lagging behind Julue on the sidewalk. Every time Julie would stop and turn to urge Ckara on, Birdie would stop, too, and clamp her legs together. Well. Julie saw the flash of yellow and the jig was up.

The Yellow Highlighter Incident followed a kerfuffle earlier this morning when Julie demurred in the face of Clara's request for a permanent marker with which to enscribe "Squirrel" on the squirrel house Birdie was making out of an old shoe box. Julie took all the Sharpies out to the garden with her after denying Clara's request, not trusting Birdie not to take matters into her own hands.

So it was that on the sidewalk Julie silently congratulated herself for this forforethought  because it was clear that after having her request for a permanent marker denied, Clara had abandoned her squirrel real estate designs to color her leggings--and the bottom of her feet.

We've got a live one, Fans. Katy, bar the door. And the scissors and the markers.

Post-clean-up.