Through a Ten Year Olds’ Eyes

My oldest, Kayla will be 10 in just about a months time.  She has quickly grown up, learning so much from home and at school. 

She is open in a way that I never was.  I could never talk to my mother about things I heard at school nor did I ever tell my mother if I was ever made fun or if I was being picked on.  I guess I just didn’t feel the comfort that Kayla does.  I am thankful of course that she does in fact feel this way.

She told me about a month ago that she was being made fun of because she has thick eyebrows that will one day form a uni brow if not taken care of.  This was on a Friday that she informed me of this.  We talked about it and since her real dad sperm donor has a uni brow I knew that there was a possibility she would be struck with this horror as  well.  Although I had always hoped that she was take after me.  Unfortunately she did not.  So, I had a hair appointment at Dillard’s (love the girl I go to) and I knew they did waxing there…So I took Kayla with me and she had her first waxing.  Jennifer (my hair stylist) was very pleased with her, no flinching, complaining, tears, nothing.  Jennifer told me afterwards that there were tons of women that came in for waxings and sometimes she would have to stop in the middle of for them to get their wits together.  So this was her first step into Pre teendom.

Back last year she was a cheerleader, during that time, we broke out the Nair and got that dark hair off her legs.  This was due to the fact that you couldn’t see the hair on the other little girl’s legs and Kayla was really self conscious.  No biggie I thought.  It was the only time that we did it and to my surprise her hair grew very slow and her smooth legs with barely visible stubble made it through the season.

Since shorts season is amongst us Floridians now, her legs are out there for everyone to see.  The mean girls are out in full swing.  I swear I’d love to slap a lot of the girls that are in her grade and in her class.  They are a bunch of bratty girls.  The night of Kayla’s performance at school one of the girls that is mean to Kayla was wearing WAY too much makeup!  Kayla said she came to school like this everyday and she wears a bra and stuffs it with toilet paper.  Kayla said she didn’t understand why she wanted boys to look at her boobs!  Haha.  Way to go Kayla! 

Anyways I am getting off subject.  So, Kayla ask me when she could shave…I told her that whenever, I suppose, she said this weekend, with extreme excitement in her voice.  Sure thing.  So this weekend, she will take step three into Pre teendom…Step two was just a few months ago when she had to start wearing deodorant.  Oh the joy she gets when going to purchase the newest scent!  These are things that we don’t look at as milestones.  She has been thrilled about each and every step closer to becoming “grown”.  I on the other hand can’t help but try and keep her my baby a little longer.  I didn’t want all these things to happen now, before she was 13 but things happen unusually fast.  So this weekend we will be purchasing her very first razor and I’ll teach her what I can on the process.  In a way I feel as though she’s growing up to quickly.  In my eye’s she only a month away from her first car, prom and high school graduation.