Emily was told "Emily, look at all this hair that came out while I was brushing."
Seeing as how he is a healthy 10 year old, she caught on pretty quickly that such a case was pretty unlikely. A lite grilling brought forward the truth that he had cut his own hair to get rid of "the part that stood up". Luckily for him it's not *too* obvious. Glad we made it past this disaster with minimal impact and credit to him for doing it while I wasn't around.
