Beauty at a HIGH COST!

This kind of cuteness does not come without a cost! Let me explain....
Dacie has been blessed w/ her mother's hair type (sense the sarcasm) it does not hold curl worth a bean, and to get desired curls, it takes some SERIOUS hair spray, gels, blow drying, sponge curlers and ratting. BUT of course, Halloween Fairy's cant NOT have the curliest and cutest hair EVER!
SO Dacie's dream came true and she had 2 ladies-in-waiting most of the evening...doting on her. Dacie got to play with mommy's make-up and counter stuff to her hearts content.

However...after about an hour of this hair stuff--she was through. So it was time for us to tie in the bows. Aunt Cara left the curling iron on...just in case there was some flat parts in her hair. I (the mom) moved it over to the opposite sink so she would not grab it. BUT while I was running into the next room to grab her ribbon. I heard a blood curdling scream--and I knew exactly what had happened before I even went in there, and found her holding her hands in the air and the curling iron on the floor! Just chalk another bad mommy moment onto the board!

(This is the nastiest burn on the oppsosite hand that tore open and had a huge pit--while playing outside...that is when we knew she had more burning that we had originally thought!YUCK!)

We ran it under cold water immediately-with Dacie trying to pull her hands away the whole time. Dacie is not super good at verbal words yet--so we were trying to find the red marks where she might have burned herself. The only one we saw was on the palm of her hand (only to realize that was the least of the burns--later). We also applied after-burn ointment to it. She cried and cried and was held for a good 20 minutes. I felt awful. Dacie only would stop crying if Dan was holding her. It was crunch time at this point and I was contemplating staying home with her since I had been the one to allow this to happen.... BUT that girl 'took one for the team' and was a CHAMP the entire evening!

(The burn on the palm of her hand that we first had seen--it has a slight white blister on it)

It was not until the proceeding days that we realized how badly she had burned BOTH hands and blisters began appearing and breaking! We have had to keep her hands clean and use LOTs of band-aids!

(Look closely-that is NOT a fat thumb pad but a HUGE blister on the tope of her finger!)

We were lucky it was not worse...however, we learned that beauty does come at a price, to be more vigilant, and that first time experiences with burns is not a fun thing for the babies and hearts of the mommas!!!