Stinkerbell's haircut

Stinkerbell wanted a haircut and here are the before and after pictures.

The story...
First, a little background...Stinkerbell has gone with me to get my hair cut for almost 4 years now. She has had one haircut; she got about an inch cut off. We go to the same place everytime, and she never speaks. She stands or sits quietly by the chair (or in a stroller originally) and smiles at everyone. They come over and tell her how adorable she is and what a good girl she is (while I invite them to come by the house sometime to see the real "her"), and she just smiles. The only time she has spoken in there is to say, "thanks" when someone gives her a sucker after my hair cut.

Fast forward to haircut day...She is so excited; she keeps telling me she wants her hair cut. Whenever someone asks her about how she wants it cut, she just looks at me, as if to say, "you'll have to tell her how to cut it, Mom." Once she's in the chair, Lori asks her how she wants it cut, and she smiles and points to me. Of course, because she doesn't talk in here. Lori and I decide on a length, slightly below the shoulders, and the cutting begins. When she was finished, we asked Stinkerbell if she liked it, and she just looked at us. So Lori asked her again, and low and behold, Stinkerbell looks up and says, "I want it shorter." After we recovered from the shock of her actually speaking, Lori finished cutting. The grin on Stinkerbell's face just kept getting bigger and bigger; she was so happy with the final product. On the way home, she said, "I'm just so proud of myself."

Apparently, this hair cut was a bigger deal than any of us knew.