"Well, that happened..."

...was Elizabeth's response to the incident when she heard about it.

You may recall that recently, Carter got a great haircut in the style of Uncle Park.

His hair looked like this.

Also recently, cousin Anna decided that her hair needed a little self trimming.  We didn't think anything about it, but then yesterday afternoon while playing with a friend who had come over, Carter came out of the bathroom and asked me to look at his his hair.  From a few steps away it looked like he had gelled it back, so I put my hand on his head to see just how much gel he had used.  I felt nothing but hair.  I then started actually to pay attention to what was happening and this is what I saw.

Oh crap.  So I kept my cool and headed to the bathroom and found this:

Thankfully, his friend had not been involved, Carter had just decided he wanted his hair short like another friend Max (not present), and knew how to use scissors.

I called for an appointment at his kid salon for that afternoon, but alas they were booked all day.  So after going to a basketball game that night and church the next morning, we headed to the salon to see what they could do.

As expected, it was buzz cut he wanted and a buzz cut he got.  He got pretty close to the scalp in places so there is still a few spots to see, but all in all, a #1 buzz evened it all out, and it'll grow back! This is the oldest looking haircut he's gotten yet.  I guess the Uncle Park loses out to the buzz.

Haircut

Carter got a new haircut last week. He seemed to be hoping for a real mohawk (he kept telling the stylist that it needed to be shorter on the sides, a LOT shorter). But, he seems pretty happy with what he got. We call it the Uncle Park.

He also got some kid-friendly, grape-scented hair product. It's a bit odd that his head smells like grape jam, but he seems to like it.

Haircut

Just some quick photos from Carter's haircut today.

In the race car (actually fire chief car) watching "Cars" getting hair cut. What could be better? Self-taken "after" photo

Shorn!

Apparently, Thomas wasn't down with the whole long-haired child thing (which seems pretty hypocritical, really :). But I told him he could get Carter's hair cut whenever he wanted. So today, (the first time he was alone with Carter since I said that) they got a haircut.

And, wow. What a difference a haircut makes. Look at my baby-faced toddler on the top and my practically-ready-for-jr-high boy on the bottom! Only taken a week apart. Wow.

Silly Hair Day

The first Friday of each month, Carter's school has "spirit day", on which we are asked to do something funny to them (dress them in silly socks, their (our) favorite color, etc.). This month was silly hair day. Thankfully, Carter is in serious need of a haircut, so we were able to participate fully in the silliness.

Haircut

If you think cutting a toddler's hair would be difficult, take how hard you think would be and multiply by about 100. And that's about how hard it actually is. Last time we got Carter's haircut professionally, we ended up in the ER (not because of the haircut, though). This time, I decided to cut it myself.

It's not the worst haircut I've ever given (as my Barbies would attest), but it's also not the best. In fairness to myself, this picture wasn't meant to be a haircut shot, so the hair is a bit mussed up, but you can still see the slightly severe haircut that I gave Carter. I guess next time we'll be going back to the professionals.

Haircut

Carter was starting to get a little shaggy, so we took him for his first haircut on Sunday. We went to one of those cute places that have cars for the kids to sit in and show movies to distract them. Carter was a bit squirmy (to be expected), but overall, he did great.

Before


After

Our Day

We had a very productive day. Here's what we've accomplished today:

1. I got a haircut - and I got bangs! Unfortunately, the guy cut them to go the wrong way (not the way my hair naturally parts), so my bangs will probably have grown out by the time I get my hair trained to go this way.

2. We shipped several boxes of borrowed newborn and maternity clothes back to their owners (thanks to those of you who loaned, and be on the lookout for a box coming your way!).

3. We sold a bunch of books that we purged from our bookshelves. In preparation for the move (and since we got quotes from movers), we are trying to purge as much as we can. We took a HUGE push cart full of books over to a store that buys them. While it was a difficult process deciding which books to give up, we were pleasantly surprised to get almost a hundred dollars for them!

4. That book money will offset the cost of the new couch we bought today (our Christmas present to each other)! It will be delivered to our new apartment in February. And it has a sofa bed for your visiting pleasure...

(This is a picture of our new sofa, but I'm not sure why those black lines are showing up... They aren't there in either the real picture or on the couch itself.)

5. We took yet another huge push cart full of clothes and books to the Salvation Army.

6. Thomas got two new sport coats thanks to birthday and Christmas gifts, Macy's excellent holiday sale and our friend Mike Kass' surprising sense of style and stamina in department stores.

Now, we are enjoying a bottle of sparkling Shiraz to relax and celebrate today's productivity. Who knew that they made red sparkling wine??