Hair, Scissors and Tears!

My son is like me in many ways... MOSTLY the AWESOME ways! HE HE, however one downside is He has inherited my side of the families hair line.  He is "blessed" with what we affectionately call the "PRESTON HAIRLINE".  Basically its a very severe widows peak, it is common among the men on the Preston Side.  Along with the "Preston Hairline" William also has very slow growing hair just like his mommy.  (Side Note- I am continually told that I didn't have hair until I was 3). 
William fortunately has hair it just hasn't grown incredibility fast.  As most toddlers usually have their first hair cuts around 1 year of age, William's first Hair cut was at 20 months.  (Side note- there was an earlier attempt at a haircut, however it ended with two small clips with the scissors and a large shouting match between Clayton and My self.)

(The Before shot- Notice the Infamous PRESTON HAIR LINE, sort bald on each side of center)

So this week we cut Williams hair, he was developing a pretty good mullet (Side note- Clayton and myself have vowed to never allow our Children to have a mullet!)

  As patience is another virtue that no one in our house has, we opted to use the hair clippers, to be more efficient.  So I 'affectionatly' detained our son (which is kinda like trying to wrestle an alligator), as Clayton used the clippers to remove all the soft little baby hairs on my baby's head.  I shed a couple tears... and there was only one slightly heated discussion on how Clayton was ruining my baby's hair. 



(Action shot- prior to me having to detain the busy arms and legs)

However all worked out well, and in the end we transformed William from a sweet little baby boy in to a busy little boy! (well the transformation happened prior but now he looks like a little boy).  William did really well, no freaking out with the clippers and other then the difficulties we had holding him no issues!

Hopefully future haircuts will go this smoothly!

(After Shot- Notice the towel used half way to lovingly bundle the child during the clipping)

(Yep, that's all the hair)



Our Little Boy





(This is just a random shot of how you cant turn your back for a minute!)