On her anniversary, Chelsea Sylvaria wanted to share with the world all of the reasons she loves her husband Dave so much, but as it turns out, she was able to let two very touching videos of him and their daughter, Riley, do all the talking. After having a chat with Riley in which the young girl admitted to her mom that she doesn't love herself, Chelsea shared the details of the devastating conversation with her husband [1].
"Yesterday I was joking around with Riley and telling her everyone I loved," Chelsea wrote in a post to Facebook. "'I love Riley, I love Gavin, I love Grayson . . . ' Riley then looked at me and went, 'And do you love yourself???' I immediately said 'Of course I do, you always have to love yourself! Do you love yourself???' And she responded very softly, 'No.' I was a bit taken aback and said, 'What do you mean you don't love yourself?' To which she uttered my worst fear: 'I don't love myself because I don't have hair!' Fast forward to later that night when we got home. Dave wanted to talk to her about what she had said . . . this was the result."
Along with the post, Chelsea shared two videos of Dave and Riley. In the first (above) Dave can be heard addressing Riley's comments, and asks her if what she said about herself was true. "Do you know how special you are?" Dave asks Riley. "Hair doesn't matter. I know you would like to have hair. Daddy wishes you could have hair, too, for you, but I love you the same no matter what and so does Mommy, and so does everybody else. It doesn't matter if you're bald or if you have hair. It doesn't make any difference."
Following his sweet words to Riley, he asks her, "Do you want Daddy to shave his head?" to which the girl responds with smiles and nods. "I'm going to shave my head. Want to do it right now?"
And shave his head right then and there he did, which Chelsea captured in a second video (below).
Riley is visibly excited in the clip, and even takes a stab at using the buzzer to help her dad complete the job. Chelsea says that after talking to her dad and watching him shave his head for her, Riley is feeling much better: "Riley is currently over being upset about having no hair, minor bump in the road of life!"