Sparking joy: A bus driver brought a little bit of joy to young girl Isabella Pieri's life by helping her to braid her hair every day after her mother passed away. Photo / KSLTV
Sparking joy: A bus driver brought a little bit of joy to young girl Isabella Pieri's life by helping her to braid her hair every day after her mother passed away. Photo / KSLTV
A bus driver brought a little bit of joy to a young girl's life by helping her to braid her hair every day after her mother passed away.
After Isabella Pieri's mother passed from a rare illness there was no one able to style the 11-year-old's hair every morning untilher school bus driver Tracy Dean started offering to braid the little girl's hair, KSL TV reported.
The little girl from Alpine, Utah, always wanted her hair done for school but neither she nor her dad knew how to do it until Tracy came along and gave Isabella a surge of confidence.
Tracy braids Isabella's hair every morning and told KLS, "You can't be shy, you've got to talk to them. You treat them like your own kids, you know."
The kind act of braiding her hair has impacted the little girl immensely and she gushed about Tracy, "It makes me feel like she's a mum pretty much to me.
"And it makes me excited for the next day to see what she does," the little girl shared.
Sparking joy: A bus driver brought a little bit of joy to young girl Isabella Pieri's life by helping her to braid her hair every day after her mother passed away. Photo / KSLTV
Isabella's dad, Philip Pieri got emotional when he spoke about how thankful he was for Tracy's good deed, the Daily Mail reported.
"Tracy didn't have to step up, but she stepped up to help out, I was amazed," he expressed.
Before Tracy came along, Philip has always struggled with Isabella's hair and he even admitted that when his wife first passed he originally gave his daughter a crew cut.
Her hair was cut short after her dad did not know what to do with it. Photo / KSLTV
"I originally just gave her a crew cut because I didn't know how and it was all tangled and I couldn't get it out for anything," he shared.
After Isabella's hair grew back in following the short crew cut, she began just brushing her hair out quickly and throwing it back in a ponytail because that's all she knew how to do.
Now, Isabella is rocking a different hairstyle every day and never knows what she's going to get that morning.
Tracey leaves some extra time in the morning for the hair styling. Photo / KSLTV
Each day is different when it comes to Tracy's style as she'll sometimes do one braid or double braids and adding a pink flower to the ponytail at the end.
The reason for Tracy's kindness and generosity is the fact that she was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years ago and has kids of her own.
She told the local news that she thought about this when she got sick and even admitted thinking, "Who is going to take care of my little ones?"
"Not that my husband couldn't do it but you know, that's what moms do. They do their kids' hair," she continued.
Her dad Philip is so grateful for Tracey's help. Photo / KSLTV
Ever since Tracy began styling Isabella's hair she has gained a lot more confidence and both her father and teachers are noticing.
One of her teacher's even admitted, "Her head was a little higher that morning and she had a little more of a step," about Isabella wearing her first braid to school.
It's not just Isabella's hair that Tracy braids - she actually does all of the girls' hair on the bus to school.
It started off with Tracy braiding all the other girls' hair and Isabella was too shy to ask at first but eventually got the courage to ask and is quite happy she did.
"It makes me feel happy that they are happy," Tracy admitted about braiding her students' hair.
