"I Love Johnny!"

I took Isobel to the hair salon on Thursday afternoon to have her hair cut.

While there, she was visiting with the stylist and the owner of the salon. "I love Johnny," Isobel told the ladies.

"You love Johnny?," the owner responded. (She has met John several times over the last few years because that's the only place he will go when he needs a haircut.)

"Well, he's my Dad and how could he be my Dad if I didn't love him?," Isobel explained.

As they were working on her, Isobel was very chatty. But at one point, Jeanine (the salon owner) was trying to trim her bangs just a little bit shorter and the stylist was brushing Isobel's hair with a round brush and blowdrying it. "Hey, watch the ears!," Isobel instructed, in a loud voice, which was peppered with dismay.

Another lady was having perm rods put in and both the client and the employee working on her, were having a hard time not laughing out loud at the little gal.

The women pampered Isobel to excess, even putting rouge on her face in answer to her question, "How do you get red cheeks?" And then she got a rainbow coloured piece of hair tinsel (bling) tied into her new surf cut. Finally, as we left, Isobel got a package of M & M's as a treat. I'd told Isobel that she didn't really need any chocolate as she had a blueberry muffin waiting at Grandma's house. But she really wanted a treat... so Jeanine handed her a package of M & M's and told her to run!

From there, we went to the eye doctor for Isobel's annual check up. I think she really wanted to dupe the optician into giving her an Rx for glasses. They shone pictures of various things on the wall and Isobel answered correctly that it was an "E" and that another icon was a birthday cake. Then they flashed up a drawing of a bird. "I think that's a flower pot," she said. Unfortunately (for her) the trick didn't work and she was given a clean bill of eye health and told to come back next year. In fact, she is actually a bit less farsighted than she was last year. So be sure to watch for flying flowerpots in the sky near you!