Who is this toddler and what have you done with my baby boy?!? M’s hair was growing long and kind of fuzzy in the back and he was looking a bit shaggy. I knew I’d have to cut it at some point, but knowing that when this happened his baby look would be immediately erased. Friday I finally had the nerve to go ahead and give him his first haircut.

{before the haircut}

{rocker baby hairdo- before the cut. Notice the lollipop distraction? This really did help!}

{almost there}

{fresh out of the bath- a clean-cut, sticky lollipop-free boy!}

{Ta da! I can’t believe how old he looks now!}

In church yesterday several people commented that M looks so grown up “these days.” Well, that just happened the day before when I clipped off his baby locks. Of course I saved a couple of locks of his hair. So long babyhood . . . well mostly.

S. asked me yesterday, “What are we doing to do with that hair? Make a wig?” (referring to the little clipped locks I set aside.

I told her it would only be enough for a Barbie wig!

DH said he was glad that I am now the official family barber- which is fine by me. I told him if we ever have another son, that he’ll have to be in charge of the boys’ haircuts. While growing up, DH’s father was the one who cut all of his boys’ hair. They’d avoid being the last one at the clippers, since the metal blades would get mighty hot by the end of the haircutting session! (He grew up in a family of 6 boys and 2 girls!) His dad even owned a barber chair and is still willing to give the grandsons a haircut now and then.

~Amy

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