Although possibly it was just laziness and not wanting to deal with him screaming and fighting in a hair salon, too.
But the upshot is, I was looking at some Christmas pictures of him recently, and he looked like a raggedy white-trash scruffian whose momma didn't care enough to do what needed to be done with his hair. Plus he was waking up in the morning with mini-dreads in the back from going to bed with wet hair, and those were a pain in the ass to comb out, de-tangling spray or no.
So I asked some of my mom-friends, and they all said either take him to the barber shop your husband goes to (not an option for us, as KB is one of these guys who just break out the Wahl in the bathroom every few weeks) or go to a specialty kids' haircutting salon.
And thus, at 10 o'clock on Sunday morning, we found ourselves with a number of other hapless parents at the Snip-its Salon in Hingham, Massachusetts, trying to get the kid's hair cut in time to go home and watch the football games.
They were pretty good there - they have plenty of toys and things for the kids to play with (Nolan found a Thomas the Tank Engine quite enthralling)and there are lots of LSD-trip colors and video screens to bring on the grand mal seizures. We told them it was Nolan's very first haircut, so they saved a lock of hair for us and gave him a little certificate. He actually did surprisingly well - he stayed in the chair and didn't fuss too much for most of it. It was only at the very end when she tried to blow-dry some of the hair off of him that he freaked out - he did NOT like that at all. But then a sour apple Dum-Dum pop was procured, and all was well again.
My little baby's not a baby anymore! He's a boy! A boy with a haircut!
Thanks for reading.
4 comments:
Oh my god that kid is adorable.
Oh, man! He was all rad and now he's a little Republican! Screw the man!
Kidding! That's a good-looking kid, shorn of his locks-of-power or not.
Aww - yay! 1st haircut! I had no idea there were salons that cater just to children. That's kind of cool. When I was little, I had to go to my dad's (and granddad's) barber. Which involved me thumbing through the same ancient Highlights magazine over and over while a bunch of old men talked about the hail storm that flattened Carl's wheat.
Anyway, that's a good lookin' kid, both before and after!
When's the next monthly installment of photos being sent out?
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