Weston's first mommy haircut...

Hair too long

Looking back at photos is always when I notice that Weston needs a haircut. Like that very first trim that I gave him after his first school pictures that showed his awesome comb-over...just in the front - nice. Then he got his first real big-boy haircut in October...we had it done at Kiddie Kutters, and while they did good in a way because they could distract him with the fire engine chair, his hair was still cut a little uneven and the hairline in the back was a little silly. That being said...I got the crazy idea to try to give Weston his next haircut.

So, not exactly sure how to go about a baby haircut, Rolland and I tackled this one on our own. At first we tried sitting him in the Bumbo seat...this worked for about 3 minutes. I started out this little adventure with some scissors, but he was too squirley, then I used the regular hair clippers...a 4. I figured I could go shorter if I had to. Weston definitely got tickled by this, but since it's pretty quick, I just went for it. Afterward I had to try to cut the top and front with scissors and try to make it even...fun times. I was afraid I might cut his ear off!  I was definitely not successful at cutting the very back hairline.  When I tried to use the trimmers to make it shorter, Weston would scrunch up his shoulders and I'd be blocked.
 

Mmm...sucker, red cherry mess!

When he really got squirmy, we couldn't do anything to hold him down, so Rolland picked him up and put him on the counter (we started all this mess in the floor), and said, "just give him one of those suckers"...hmm...who's the sucker?  We are.  We gave him a red cherry blow pop that my mother-in-law had left in our candy bowl a couple months ago.  Now this was especially messy.  As if hair covering our entire kitchen wasn't enough, now our baby had crooked hair, a sticky red shirt (from all the cherry drool) and now was "tar and feathered with his own hair.  The sucker was definitely a good distraction (this is not Pediatrician recommended)...and since he'd never had candy before, he was loving it.  Of course he kept dropping the sucker, so the hair-cutting process kept being interrupted by me rinsing off the sucker and Weston crying because he thought I was taking it away.  All-in-all, he ended up with a pretty good result.  Now it's definitely not perfect by any stretch, but he looks like such a grown up little man now.  We'll see if I'm brave enough to try to wrangle him to do this ever again, right now, I'm not so sure.



The end result (after a bath of course)