Nathan's First Hair Cut

On Wednesday, April 15, 2009, Nathan got his first haircut. We were going to do it earlier but refer to posting about Easter weekend. Our first thoughts were to wait until he was 1 to get his haircut - but soon realized that our child who was born with a head full of hair had too much hair to wait that long. His hair covered his ears on the sides and went to his nose in the front(see before photos)! We had to go with the comb over do all the time. So I got a recommendation of a place from a friend and made an appointment days in advance. The place had all the makings to be a great place to get your kids' hair cuts. They had a play area, video game stations, the little ones could pick a taxi or firetruck to sit in. They had TVs at all the stations.....my husband may go back! Unfortunately, they failed miserable at being a nice place. The play area was dirty, the place had sun coming in to where you needed sunglasses, it was hot, the floors (everywhere) were filthy, they took us 30 minutes AFTER our scheduled appointment and I had to ask her to wipe Nathan's seat out twice. I was also told we would get a frame to put a lock of his hair and a picture of his first haircut- we did not. We were able to capture most of his hair but the lady kept forgetting and throwing in on the filthy floor with the rest of the hair. Jason and I were not impressed and almost left. They also took a walk-in ahead of us and one worker even tried to get us taken next because we had an appointment - but the other worker just took the walk-in instead. So when the lady cutting Nathan's hair said. "thank you for being so patient" - I said "We're not". She GOT it. Oh - Nathan also got hungry and tired and started to cry while we waited. Finally time for the haircut. Everything was going along just fine. He was doing great, we were getting his hair trimmed and then....he hits his head on the steering wheel - and cried and wanted me. So we finished the haircut with Nathan in my lap. They actually asked if we wanted to fill out and "incident report" because Nathan had this big red goose egg on his head! We declined. So his hair cut looked great - he then screamed for 30 minutes until he got to nurse and go to bed. He was worn out. So what should have been this nice, fun experience.......not so much, but at least it is done. Hope you can enjoy laughing at our trials - we did later.... Enjoy the photos and video.



The other news is that we have teeth buds! You can now see the presence of teeth and feel one of the bottoms ones about to pop through!