Malachi gets a haircut!

Malachi's hair is much like is fathers, its thick and its unruly and it grows really fast. The only thing currently different about it is that its more of my natural hair color than daddy's but I anticipate that changing. For the last two weeks his grandfather kept telling us he needed a hair cut. I would just laugh because he has no idea what goes into giving Malachi a hair cut.

Its a process and one that I have to prep myself for. You can't just take Malachi to a barber shop and put him in a chair and say cut his hair please and hope that he doesn't fuss. If we tried that, we would experience the mother of all meltdowns. This is why Mike and I cut his hair.

This is how a typical hair cut day goes for Malachi. When we know this is the day we are going to cut his hair we also do daddy's hair. We do daddy's hair first so he can see what we are going to do with him. We talk and laugh and say things like Malachi get his haircut next, just like Daddy's. He seems satisfied with this idea, until we get him in the chair. But we don't budge he is getting his hair cut. We start by shaving his head with a trimmer/shaver type thing. The vibration and noise is annoying to him, but Mike stays in front of him holding is hands and counting which seems to calm him and keeps him distracted. He periodically screams and cries but we have started so there is not turning back.  After we get this step done he starts to calm. Then we put shaving cream on his head which he actually likes and I take a razor and shave the rest of his hair until he is bald. Again the whole time we are counting and holding hands and trying are hardest to talk him through this. After this is done we clean him up and he looks good for another four months or so. But this is why he looks like ragamuffin for months at a time because its quite a process to cut his hair.

Of course now that its all done and over with he turns back into a calm, happy little guy that looks even better than before. He feels his bald head and says "all gone."