I Thought Only Girls Did That!

A few Monday's ago I had another bad migraine.  Roland wasn't going to get home until after 10 and I was in complete survival mode.  As the kids were eating dinner and I'm crying at the table Aaron says to me, "Don't worry Mom, I can put Peter to bed.  You just go to bed".  Sweet, I know.  It was a great offer but even the migraine couldn't induce me to take him up on it.  Instead I asked if he and Peter would just go to bed (it was 6:30) without bedtime snacks or teeth brushing.  To my relief he agreed.  I told them they could read books for awhile and I'd be back down to turn off the lights and tuck them in.  I had the monitor turned way up and I heard nothing that clued me in to the fact that more than book reading was going on.  I went down about 7:30 after I heard Aaron say he was ready for bed.  The lights were already out so I just kissed my cute kids and went back to bed.

The next morning I was getting the boys dressed for school and while brushing Aaron's hair, for the school pictures that were being taken that day, I found huge chunks of it missing.  Talk about timing.  I tried to comb it to cover the bald spots and was pretty successful thanks to his curly hair.  It's very forgiving.  I sent a note to the teacher explaining what happened and asked if possible to pose him with his left shoulder forward.

I finally found the pile of hair next to his bed.  He had climbed up onto the computer desk and gotten his round tipped scissors down and gone to work.  I'm sure I would have been really upset if he'd whacked 6 inches of hair off, or gone after Peter.  But honestly, I think it's hilarious!

Isn't it amazing that he doesn't look bald with all that hair in his hand that should be on his head?  I didn't realize how much he'd cut off until I took him to the barber to get it fixed.  When we left he looked like he'd just enlisted.