The curls are here to stay

When Daniel was a little boy, he had blond, curly hair until someone cut off his cute little curls and he grew into the (handsome) straight, dark-haired man we know today. Will had very little hair until about 18months-2years old and even then he never reached a point of needing a hair cut ‘til probably 2 1/2 or 3. By that point we were so in love with his curls, we were afraid to repeat Daniel’s hair history so we just kept letting it grow. Then it started getting kinda long and we considered it and every now and again someone thought he was a girl and we considered it again. But Will never wanted it cut and I certainly didn’t want to take him kicking and screaming. Then a month or so ago Daniel got his haircut and Will decided he wanted his done too…but changed his mind and I was a little grateful.
This week Will mentioned several times so I felt pretty strongly the day was vastly approaching. Yesterday he said: “daddy says ‘it’s time to get a haircut today’ that’s all.” Hahaha…Daniel never actually said that but Will expected the hair massacre to happen when Daniel came home but we got involved in other things so today was the day. Will knew it too, he was very excited and continually told us about going to get his hair cut. *Sigh, here goes my little boy’s beautiful curly, blond locks. He could hardly sit still at the salon and ran to his chair- aptly appointed with a foam and phone book booster – when his name was called. Then she put on the kid-sized animal print apron, so cute. I tell her not to cut it toooooo short, she wets his hair down, I get my camera ready and am waiting for my son to make some sort of straight-hair transformation.…
Daniel comes over and says, so you’re not going to cut his hair like a little boy? What do you mean? I’m trying to keep the curls if possible and can’t make that many changes in one day! Sheesh. Well don’t I look like a fool when the hair stylist says the number of inches is not going to change the curly factor and that if he goes straight it probably won’t be ‘til 5 or 6 when he loses the baby hair. Well, all that waiting and worrying, ha! I guess Daniel was an anomaly.

Before

After

The process…

first cut

well-trained smile

Now all Will talks about is getting his hair cut. Again.