My first hair cut!

I have been waiting to get Alexis' hair cut...and yes I know she is three and she has never had one. I wanted to have her bangs grow out, so for the past three years I have been pulling her hair into pony tails and half ponies and braids. This is great because her hair is long and it stays out of her face. The other night she came into the living room from her bedroom and says
"Mom do you love my beautiful hair?" it is not unusual for my daughter to make comments like this, I often encourage comments like this being a firm believer in the fact that it is better to have too much self-confidence rather than not enough.
I reply "Lexi your hair is beautiful" at which point I start to notice that something is not the same...I began examining her hair. At first glance it looked as if she had gotten into Tim's hair gel and had created a knot, I gently started to pull the "knot" when a huge clump of hair came out with the clump. I gasp now frantically pulling hair in that spot. Tim has noticed that I am in a panic and comes over to see what is going on, sure enough she has cut several pieces and left about an inch in length, all of the pieces are right around her face so it definitely could be worse. After pulling all of the pieces out I must have looked really upset because Tim says
"honey are you going to cry" and lexi says "Mommy its OK I will get you the scissors." At this point I was in such shock I hadn't even ask how she did this or why, so after she comes down stairs with some nose hair trimmer scissors I ask her
"Lexi why did you do this to your beautiful hair?"
She replies
"I am sorry, but I just don't know!"
I am just glad that it is out of her system, hopefully her hair is grown back by next birthday!