The one where Joel got shaved..

Everyone has always admired Joel's hair. When he was 9 months old my husband suggested we get Joel's hair cut.

'No!' Was my knee jerk reaction. He has beautiful shiney hair and the thought of someone taking the scissors to it terrified me.  I felt like a hair cut was another step too far into the adult world, his purity would be tainted? Does that sound dramatic? It's the only way that I can describe it.  Well it took me 2 weeks to warm up to the idea, I began to see what my husband saw. Instead of the spun gold cherub hair I was able to to see that the hair at the base of his neck was long and stragley, the length was uneven. 

So I agreed we could take him to the hair dressers to get a wee trim. 

The hairdresser complimented his head of hair, gave him a quick trim and reassured me that the haircut would only serve to thicken his locks. 

Joel enjoyed the trip, he was bombarded with toys the distract him and loved all the mirrors around him. He left the hairdressers a happy boy, with slightly shorter, neater, primed for thickening hair! No harm done, right? 

WRONG!!! 

You see this visit to the hairdressers in some way gave Phil some kind of sick feeling of hair expert! He suggested a hair cut, I eventually agreed and therefore this makes him expert in all hair matters. This hair expert-ness festered for months growing more potent and dangerous  without me knowing.

Earlier this week Joel woke at 5am. I wee trick he pulls now and again, for reasons we can't seem to pinpoint. Phil offered to get up with him as it was his day off work. I had a 'lie in' until 6.50am and got up and showered and ready for work.  I bounced (a gross exaggeration, mopped is more accurate, it was a Monday after all) to have breakfast with my wee family, opened the living room door only to be greeted by Phil quickly shouting 'don't freak out!'

Don't freak out? Not a phrase I wanted to hear! I immediately panicked, I thought Joel had fallen and whacked his head and had a big bump or something. I prepared myself for that as I cast my eyes over him only to find Joel, my beautiful baby boy, with his head shaved! 

I was livid. How would you feel? I couldn't believe what he had done.  Joel looked all grown up with his short hair.  There was a hint of hooligan about him, pierce his ear and he would look like a wee hoodlam! 

Phil started knocking out the excuses, 

'I freaked out at the start too but now I love it!'

'What's wrong!? Hair grows!'

'Well I think he is handsome enough to carry it off'

Off course he's bloody handsome enough to carry it off. He is the most beautiful boy in the world but that's not the bloody point. He shaved off his gorgeous shiney hair. He completely changed how Joel looked. All without consulting me. 

'Ive been telling you for ages that his hair is too long, if you had taken him to the hairdressers this would never have happened!'

'Well, I just started off trimming the fringe, but it kept looking uneven and and I had to keep trimming and trimming and well, then I just shaved the whole lot ' 

Well I can actually relate to that situation, as the owner of a misbehaving fringe for part of my life I have often been in the 'wonky self trim' situation. However, I have never felt the need to shave my head. 

I was so so cross. And so so sad. But no had no choice but to get over it! The deed was done, and there was no fixing it. Hair grows. But after the chat we had I can be sure that Phil now knows where I stand on the subject of surprise head shavings. To be totally honest I know he feels bad, I don't want to make him feel awful about it, it's not just my wrath he has had to face, but the wrath of grannies, mothers in law and friends! 

I assumed that it was an unwritten rule, never to shave your child, especially without the other parents consent. 

If I had a time machine I would go back to our wedding vows and add a bit extra in.  

' I promise to love and honour you, I promise to never shave any future offspring's hair...' 

I urge you, if you have upcoming nuptials, to consider this amendment to your vows, it will save much heartache!!!  

Before and after ....

Ok, ok, so he is still the handsomest baby in all the land...