A Hairy Situation

Tonight I decided it was time to give the boys a haircut. Gabriel went first and other than squirming a little too much, his hair turned out alright. Jonah was next and Jack very patiently held his squirming, screaming brother as I tried to trim his beautiful golden locks. (I even managed to save one in a plastic baggie.) After that ordeal, Jack transported Jonah to the bathtub where Amos was giving the little boys a scrub down.

Jack came back to the kitchen and perched on the little white four legged stool. It was so small for him that I thought he was squatting. The trim attachments were neatly lined up in order from shortest to longest as they are before each haircut... or so I thought. The back was shaping up nicely with the number three attachment, so I traded that in for the number 8. We've decided that we don't like the top too short. Just like every haircut before, I dragged the clippers right down thee middle of his head. As the wave of hair rolled and grew as it rolled over the contour of his head I thought 'boy his hair really got long this time that's a lot of hai...' 

Dread came over mer.  It was the number two clipper! I totally gave Jack a reverse mohawk. How in the world did the number two get in the number eight spot and how did I miss it?! 

I gasped. "WHAT?!" yelled Jack. 

If anyone inherited the panic gene from his mother, it's that one, so as calmly as I could, I answered back, "Oh, nothing, I just accidentally gave you a summer haircut... but it's still March... That's all."

Though he played it really cool, I could tell that he was a little, um, concerned. Then he asked for "the stuff that the girls take to get their hair to grow." I chuckled to myself that he even has a clue that I have biotin in the cupboards. He asked if his hair would grow at least a quarter of an inch by morning. Ummmm, no, but here are a couple of Flintstone's vitamins, take those too. He never was a fan of my haircuts, so I'm sure I've burnt that bridge to a crisp. Also, I'm pretty sure spring pictures are next week at school. Not even gonna bring that up.