Friday, October 14, 2005

Haircut Night

Life is funny sometimes. It's a typical evening. You're driving home, sitting in traffic. So you envision how nice the evening will be. You'll give a few hugs, have a quiet dinner, mix up a drink with a little umbrella in it, maybe pay a few bills, catch the end of the game, and knock off early.

Then you walk into the house and Christy says "Hey, let's give the boys haircuts tonight". So Tuesday night this week turned out to be haircut night.

Actually, it went pretty well. During Pete's haircut, Sam and I did some flippy and looked through his favorite book, which is the Super Mario 3 tips and tricks magazine. During Sam's haircut, Pete and I sat in the "gallery". This is the loveseat where two people can sit and make disparaging remarks about the person getting their hair cut. But we had to stop because Sam always wanted to jump in to the gallery instead of getting his hair cut.

The "after" photo is below. The reason Sam is looking off to the side is that I captured the precise moment when he realized that he was interested in the pizza that he didn't want an hour earlier.

2 comments:

Melly Mel said...

Great haircuts, mom and what handsome brothers! ... and dad gets a 10 for keeping each brother happy and busy during the haircuts.

shoshanamom said...

How do you manage cutting Sam's hair inside without him squirming and without a big mess?

Manny cuts skyler's hair and we did it outside a few times b/c it is such a big mess of hair all over him etc. so we just hose the area down then get him right into the bath. but I dread doing it inside b/c the hair gets all over. it is also sooo hard to get him to sit still. its probably one of the hardest tasks as a parent to do right up there with potty training and teaching to ride a bike!