So my SD5 (6 in a month) got caught...

SD5 has hair that starts getting stringy as it grows longer. She drives me crazy with it because it gets in her face and I'm forever brushing food from her strands. Yes, food. and really, she looks SOOO adorable with a short little haircut.

SO, I called her mom and asked her if I could PLEASE cut her hair and how short I could go. BM says whatever I think and that yes, it drives her crazy too. She also stated that SD5 would be hard to talk into cutting her hair because BM had even expressed to SD5 that she should get her haircut and SD5 threw a fit saying that she didn't want her haircut. My best friend is a hairdresser so I told BM that I would get her a funky/cute SHORT haircut especially since it was the beginning of summer. I would sugar coat it and make it as exciting as possible as not to encourage any fit throwing. (Which is not tolerated in our home and never happens but I didn't want to ruffle BM's feathers and make her feel any sort of inadequacy)

SO anyways, I told SD5 yesterday that we would be getting her haircut this week and that I thought she could get one like her mommy (whom she worships) or her cousin who just got a short haircut as well.

So SD says to me: "Mommy said that I need to keep my hair long."
Me: "Really?"
SD5: "Yes, she said that I can't get it cut."
Me: "Are you sure that YOU aren't the one that doesn't want it cut?"
SD5: "Nooooo, Mommy said."
Me: " [Insert first and middle name]...are you fibbing?"
SD5: "I don't know."

Then I proceeded to tell her that I already spoke with Mommy and told her that I knew about the fit she threw and that Mommy agreed with me that she should get a haircut. Maybe I should call Daddy and tell him that she was lying.

SD5: "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

So, I condemned her to timeout for 5 minutes and made her tell her tall tale to her father...sobbing the entire time.

My point. Until recently, this little escapade would have worked for SD5. For a very long time DH and I spoke to BM as little as possible and I would never have picked up the phone and called her over such a trivial matter. I would've taken SD5 at her word and just trimmed her hair. Like my title, smart little shit. I had a hard time even getting too mad at her especially since I really do think thru her tears, she learned her lesson.

SD5 figured out how to manipulate and use our lack of communicating to get exactly what she wanted. She is FIVE. I can't imagine what my two older little con artists have accomplished in the past.. .