First official haircut...

Maybe I'm a little biased, but how handsome is he? You should have seen me, holding him down last night, with his nose running, (he's sick), on my lap, him facing me, and the barber just doing his thing. He wasn't happy, he was doing kind of this fake cry thing but he knew I was there and he could see me right in front of him and man he wanted his pacy (which btw he calls his "mapu mapu"). The barber was an older guy and he didn't mind the crying, in fact I think he took a bit too much time doing the cut. I told him twice, ok, that's good enough, and he kept cutting more and going higher in the back on his neck. He said he wanted his 'first haircut' to be really good. And there was the oldest, bouncing off every chair in the place, not able to sit still, then turning to the mirror and doing like a "Me Man Hear Me Roar" bit and beating his chest (yes be alarmed, go ahead). It was like a three ring circus. BUT the outcome was good and I was trying to maintain a good nature about it.

Look at that boy. Now I must say. He does make me proud. No one else can really understand him at this point but he's saying things like apple (bapple), night night (nigh nigh), pacy (mapu mapu), cookie (cookie), his oldest brothers name (pretty close), of course, mamma and daDEEE, bath (bah), etc etc. And he too is signing. He is not deaf, as Tammy says, (and I have long believed this even when the oldest was little and I sent stuff to Tammy that I had for the oldest to help with her little one) it's a form of communication and it helps them to not be so frustrated since Mamma is probably the only one who understands them at this point when they are so little. He can sign shoes, more, he tries drink and I know what he's doing, it tells me he's thirsty, thank you, all done (when he's full or doesn't want something anymore, doesn't even have to be food), and no. He's good at that one. Actually he's kind of made up his own symbol/sign for no but he totally knows what the "no" sign is and then he inflects his little voice, says "no" outloud and signs his made up sign. It's his first finger and his thumb in the shape of an L and he twists his little hand and points his finger at you and says a resounding "NO"! Hmmm wonder where he gets that bossiness? I can't be sure, it's no one around here...... :)

Anyway, he's growing and so handsome and makes us all three, so very happy. These are moments in time; no? The best.

Jenn