diy 'do

ever since cole started producing his second crop of hair, sometime shortly after his first birthday (the first round was dark! and fell out over the first few months), i'd gone back and forth between two thoughts: "oh it's so soft and curly and cute and i love it and could never cut it" and "man, this hair is getting fuzzy and full of yogurt crust - it's comin' off soon". i loved cole's baby curls and snuggling in their soft babyness was something i did all day long (i'm sure, to stem the tide of future schoolyard embarrassment, i will stop doing this eventually). just as once i couldn't picture him with hair, i couldn't picture him without his fuzzy baby curls. case in point:

but for some time, my head had been telling me that it was probably time, so last week i started nosing around, inquiring about where folks took their wee people for haircuts. i got a few great recommendations for a place at the lonsdale quay and their website certainly made the haircuts look like fun - sit in a race car! excitement! i kind of thought this might prove problematic for cole because he is extremely interactive with stuff like that and he'd be all over it asking for money to make it jiggle and trying to find where to put the dollars. and, to be honest, i'm getting kind of cheap lately, what with the home purchasing and all - $20+ for a kids haircut seemed like a lot, considering it might be a debacle and the cuts i saw where not anything that looked too complicated... i used to cut jamie's hair (ah, my only victim aside from barbie) and we have haircutting scissors etcetera, so last night i made up my mind to just go for it at home.

i got cole all excited about his new fancy hairdo this morning - it helped that i got one on saturday and he loved our made-up haircutting song "i'm gonna go get a hair cut, and then i'll look so fan-cee." i convinced him to get back into the highchair after breakfast this morning with promises of a few mini marshmallows for his trouble. he was so easygoing about it! no trouble at all - just requests for more marshmallows and more spraying and a bit of "hair? hair??" and pawing at his tongue. i collected his little curls up for a keepsake and voila - fancy big boy hair:

it's got a curl to it and i left a little on top, so it rumples nicely - not quite so straight-across as it looks in that first photo... i'm not suggesting i'm an awesome hairdresser or anything, but i am so relieved that i didn't do anything weird to his hair! he still has short little baby hair at his sideburns and forehead, so some of the trickiest parts didn't require a lot of work. and i'm happy to note that his hair is still just as soft and definitely just as snuzzly. (i think here i'm actually saying silly things in his ear trying to get him to stand still, but i like this one and you know what i mean...) ;-)