First Hair Cut

Jacob got a hair cut!  It was time.  He has really fine hair and it was getting pretty long, it would hang down in his eyes and the back would get all matted in his car seat.  Plus strangers kept calling him princess :)

Here are some before shots...

And some immediately after...he was NOT a fan of getting his hair cut.  I kept it a little long on the top and trimed it up quite a bit in the back and on the sides, no more matted hair!

And a few more after he calmed down a bit.

Emily's first hair cut

The other day when I got home from work, Emily had a big matted knot of hair in the back of her head.  I started combing it out with my fingers and her hair was coming out in clumps!  It wasn't until the next day when I was brushing it, that a large chunk of hair had been cut from the side..."Emily! Did you cut your hair?"...."yeah, yesterday"..."Why?"...."Because it kept getting in my face"..."Emily, you don't cut you hair"...."OK, sorry mom".  The hair wasn't so bad so we decided to leave it and she lost free access to scissors.

A few days later, I noticed a huge pile of her beautiful blonde curls in the trash can in her brothers room.  She saw me pulling them out of the can and ran and hid her head under a blanket.  "Did you cut your hair again?!"...."sorry, mom, sorry, mom, sorry, mom".  I couldn't tell where the damage was done this time, but decided if she wanted short hair I should probably take her to get it cut.

So here she is with long blonde curls.  You can see the part she cut a bit just above her right ear.

And here she is with her sassy short summer do!

We are still getting conflicting stories about why she cut her hair.  She says it was getting in her face, she told the lady at the gym there was a big knot she was trying to get out, when she was getting it cut, she told the lady she wanted short hair like mommy, then asked the lady if it would turn brown when it was cut.  Emily hates her blonde hair, she is the only one in the family with blonde hair and I don't think she likes being different.  She always says "Emily and mommy have brown hair", I think she was hoping that when her hair was cut, it would turn brown like Rapunzel's hair did in Tangled.  But, nope, she is still blonde and still cute!  I did find a spot in the middle of the back of her hair where she cut about 1" long, it sticks straight out the back when I part her hair down the middle, so looks like she won't be rocking pigtails for a while!

The time I botched his hair...then shaved his head!

A long time ago I used to cut Andrew's hair.  We took him to a salon for his first haircut around his first birthday.  Every hair cut after that I did for about a year and a half.  Then he decided that I couldn't cut his hair anymore, he said I "cut ears"...I have never once cut his ear!  So for the past year or so Andrew has been going to get his hair cut with his dad.

Then a few days ago he came to me and said he needed a hair cut and he wanted me to do it.  We set up in the garage, as soon as I started cutting he started screaming. And not just a little fussing, I mean screaming like I was beating him, I was a bit surprised none of the neighbors called the law.  And he wiggled too.  I should have just aborted the mission, but I persevered and he ended up with a pretty terrible hair cut.  The funny thing though, when it was all over, after all that screaming, he turned to me and said "that wasn't so bad mom!"  Ha yeah right!

Well, we lived with the terrible hair cut for a bit, but then I just couldn't take it anymore and buzzed all his hair off!  Andrew LOVES his buzz cut so I guess that is all that matters, and turns out he really likes having his hair cut with clippers. The new do was a big hit at preschool today too.  His dad hates the cut.  It is growing on me, he does have a nice big and perfectly round head for it! And the way this kid sweats, I bet it feels good to have no hair on his head!  I do miss his hair, but it is only hair and it will be back in a few short weeks!