Bad Hair Day

Since the day was Ryan was born, he's had good hair. In fact, at the risk of sounding completely conceited, Tony has said, if Ryan DOESN'T get good hair from us, we've done something seriously wrong.

So there you have it. We have good hair and we know it (actually, I've always disliked my super straight jet black hair, but I think Tony has fantastic hair for a middle aged man!). And lucky for Ryan, the hair genes kicked in. In fact, besides comments about being happy and cute, hair comments are probably the third most common regarding Ryan.

For the past few months though, the hair comments have turned from "I love his hair" to "when are you going to cut his hair?". His lovely locks were indeed getting long, but I loved it that way. I mean, it's not like he had dreadlocks or anything. But about 3 weeks ago, a new friend came over and said, "how old is your little girl?" Little GIRL?!

I began re-thinking the haircut thing.

I did break out the scissors and trimmed his bangs just a touch so they didn't hang in his eyes, but I couldn't bring myself to do much beyond that. And then one day, I was sitting at my desk in the kitchen (yes, I work in the kitchen now - all the better to watch the boys' activities) and I heard "oh no....". From the intonation, I knew it was something that was not dangerous, but definitely not good.

I turned around and there was Tony with a pair of scissors in his hand. Ryan was standing in front of Tony with a gleeful look on his face. He obviously had no idea that his own father had just massacred his beautiful head of hair.

Now I think Tony is a wonderful father. I rarely have to tell Tony how to parent and I seldom have to correct any of his fatherly skills. But this time, I couldn't contain myself. And then I had to call my mom. She responded, send me a picture. I'm sure it's not so bad.

So I did. She texted back, "it's not so bad."

And then I sent her another. She texted, "oh my....well, I'm not sure what to say now."

Lest you think I'm over-reacting....

Now, I do realize that bad hair is not the end of the world and there are starving children that are much worse off. But tell me, if you have a good thing going, why cut it?