Ours has the most ridiculously huge mop of hair - I swear 1/3 of her total volume is just hair - and I can't do a thing with it. Brush it, cut it, put it in ponytails, ANYTHING. I can wash it and sometimes she'll let me brush it for a second or two when I brush her big sister's hair, but that's it.

It gets a kind of semi-permanent dreadlock where she sleeps on it that is really hard to get out (I attack it when I have conditioner in her hair in the bath) and it constantly gets in her face so she's constantly brushing it out of her eyes. When she has a cold it gets globs of snot in it I can't get out. "DON'T TOUCHA MY HAIR MUMMY".

So mine is the one with the 'cute' enormous mass of curls while all the other little girls with much shorter hair have theirs in pretty little ponytails and buns or clipped up. If that hair keeps growing we're going to have a golden Cousin It on our hands. I mean, in the bath the stuff is almost down to her waist, and when she's naked it covers her nipples.

So I'm with you on hoping its just a phase too ...