"Honey, come in here a sec!" Shawn called, laying out the supplies in front of him.

"But Daddy, I'm watching Princess Ariel!" his daughter protested, curls wild from laying on the couch all morning.

"Okay sweetheart, I'll come to you," Shawn giggled with a shake of his head, picking up the hairbrush, spray bottle of water and elastics.

Shawn sat down on the couch cushion, spreading his knees and patting the space in front of him. Skylar shuffled across the love-seat, settling just between his thighs and not once breaking her concentration on The Little Mermaid.

"Dad, why?" she pestered, trying her best to shake him off.

"Honey I need to practice, we've gotta impress Mom," Shawn said through pursed lips as he places the iPad on the cushion beside him, hitting play on the braiding tutorial. She let out an exaggerated sigh.

"Mom always starts with the brush," Skylar muttered, tiny feet swinging off the edge of the couch.

Shawn quickly hit pause on the video, carefully running a brush through his daughter's hair and growing concerned as it rapidly expanded in size and volume.

"Daddy, are you almost done?"

"Shh, no, stay still," Shawn whispered, tongue sneaking out of the corner of his mouth as he hit play on the video, desperately trying to section her wild curls into three equal pieces. The hairbrush sat in his lap and he paid no attention to the water-spray bottle, completely overcome by managing three sections of puffy hair with only two hands.

A smile crossed his face as Skylar began humming along to Under The Sea, unable to resist the urge to join her. His heart grew warm and fuzzy as he belted out the duet with his daughter, unsteady fingers tangled in her hair as he kept losing his grip on the lopsided braid. The song ended and he was out of hair to mess with, so he tried his best to tie the elastic at the bottom. Skylar turned in his lap, craning her neck to look at him. A toothy smile was plastered on her face as she gave him a look of approval, comforted by the sound of his singing voice.

"Shall we try again?" Shawn asked, pulling the elastic out of her hair and trying his best to replicate the braid from memory.