Red Head

The night before I had Emerson I dreamt she had red hair. Then when she went bald and her hair started coming back I was convinced she was going to be a strawberry blonde. Her little eyebrows had a hint of red, or so I thought. Apparently Emerson has the same wish now as I did then because tonight as she was getting ready for bed this is what she said to me:

Em: "Is my hair red yet?"

Me: "What? Why?"

Em: "You know, from that strawberry stuff."

Then, as I'm laughing, she proceeds to get into the tub to get her bottle of strawberry scented shampoo to show me what she means. Holding it up she points to the picture and says "See?" The picture on the front of the bottle is a cartoon of a girl with red hair. Next she turns it over to pretend to read the back and says "See, it says it turns your hair red, right?" All I could do was laugh and by this point Tripp was there to witness the conversation. He replied "those are the ingredients" to her question about what the bottle said and she just said "oh" and went on to bed. I guess Tripp thought his reply made sense to a 3 year old and I was just so tickled by the whole thing I didn't think to tell her that she wasn't going to wake up tomorrow looking like Strawberry Shortcake. She's been washing her hair with the shampoo for at least a week and probably dreaming every night of her new red hair and tonight is going to be no different. If she were older she'd be ready to sue for False Advertising by now!!!