Cutting hair is a big topic around these parts. Often it comes in the form of unsolicited advice, but I suppose we should expect that having two boys with longer hair. Once Ilan's hair was even trimmed by a well-meaning Nana who thought we wouldn't notice. But this haircutting was totally self-inflicted:
I was putting my make-up on and Ilan was in the bathtub. All of sudden he announces "Oh look, a piece of my hair." and hands me a lock of his hair. I ask him if something pulled his hair or if he had cut it (he was cutting some paper earlier) and he said no. He just handed me the mysterious piece of hair. Something was fishy. So, I pondered, and searched the internet, and then figured if it was an illness more will come out and then I'd start to panic.
An hour later Ilan and I are working on a puzzle in his workbook and it hits him what happened to his hair (I think admission of guilt was timed to be at the moment I might react the least). "Oh, I know what must have happened. When I was cutting my ribbon (from a craft he made at school) I must have cut of piece of my hair!" So, we had a little chat about cutting our own hair and the mystery was solved.
I'm sorry if you've mistaken one of my boys for a girl, or if you are opposed to long hair on boys, but it probably bothers you more than it does us. We love our boys hair.
2 comments:
Thanks for sharing. I think they both have beautiful hair! It was sad for me to cut Nathanael's hair for the first time this spring (and I've still held off cutting the curls in the back...). It really is a more emotional issue than I would have expected it to be, and of course everyone else in the family has an opinion on the subject as well. Your post reminds me that it's our decision, and I appreciate that!
Bree
Love the long hair. Tell them all to shove it. ;)
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