May 30 2008
A Lock Of Aiden’s Hair
Aiden has interesting hair. It’s blonder than either of his parents’ hair, but straight and fine like his father’s. Unfortunately, the front of his head was being outgrown by the back of his head. The front just hasn’t filled in entirely, while the back is dominated by a huge tuft that sticks out backward, giving the impression that he’s always running into the wind. We call it his “mullet”.
Last night during bath time, Aiden’s hair was wet and the entire backside was pulled back into a single spike, pointing behind him. I thought it would be pretty easy to snip off an inch or two like that, just take off the end of the spike. On an impulse, I reached over for my electric razor, grabbed the end of the hair spike, and zipped through it. Aiden turned to give me a look of complete horror. And then I felt it too.
You know that feeling you get when you’re doing about 80 down the highway and you suddenly see police lights behind you? That’s what it was. Not guilt for what you were doing, but fear that you’ve been caught and will have to pay the price. I decided not to hide the deed, but come clean immediately. This could either go well, in that Chrissy would say something along the lines of “well, he needed it”, or badly, in that Chrissy would freak out.
Chrissy freaked out. I had ruined the “first haircut” experience for her. She said that there should have been a professional barber and lots of photos involved. And then she told her mom on me. Mortified, I tried to explain that it was just a little bit of hair, the mullet is still there (although the tail is gone), and now he’ll be all right to wait another month for a haircut. I think that they’ve forgiven me. Aiden doesn’t seem to mind at all, and you can’t even tell that I butchered his noggin.
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Catch up, man… Connor’s going in for his second haircut in 2 weeks.
-Carl