Soft curls to copper pennies.

Those blonde baby curls!

Soft and sweet - they just don't last long enough.

In fact, they are already gone.

Two baby hair-cuts later, his hair is a shade darker and a little more coarse;

the softness has been replaced with that copper-penny smell

of a boy who's been playing outside in the wind and sun.

It's a fair trade in my book

because I love that smell almost as much

as those soft blonde curls.