Haircut time

I love getting haircuts:) Robert hates getting haircuts.

Fortunately, both Alex and Mark love going to get their hair cut.

But it wasn’t always so. I remember our first time getting Mark to cooperate at the barber shop. We usually go to the one in the North Area since it's not as busy as the one on main base, smaller and we know the hairdressers by name.  The first couple of times when I started bringing Mark, I had to hold him on my lap while he was screaming his head off, refusing to sit still. The only thing that helped was this funky musical Japanese bus with very strange looking elephants that kept singing Japanese versions of Nursery Rhymes (just my educated guess). Another thing that helped him to calm down by the time the haircut was done was his hairdresser’s constant muttering: “Marku, Marku, Marku is a good boy. Marku is a good boy. Almost done” and then a whole bunch of Japanese of kiddie talk. Although it was quite stressful to keep a whining child on my lap, just listening to that made me smile.  Here is a picture of Mark this month and that patient lady.

Well, three haircuts and hundreds Japanese magic words later, “Good boy Marku” decided that he loves haircuts. And he loves that Japanese lady:) Now, he and Alex both come into the barbershop, get into their seats and feel like kings:)

Alex has always liked getting haircuts. He is one of those guys that can probably fall asleep in the chair while getting his hair buzzed off. I think he just like the touch on his head, plus taking his glasses off makes it a novelty.

Getting haircuts together, definitely creates some kind of brotherly unity for Alex:) (we have been working really hard in our house to make Mark feel like Alex is not always there to chase/get/squish/grab/pull/hug him).

As a side note, the lady that cuts Alex’s hair is super slow….EVERY time, Mark’s hairdresser finishes Mark’s hair and has to help to even out Alex’s haircut. 

You might be asking why I don’t cut their hair at home? The answer is simple—I don’t have the attention and patience to detail….plus the mess that short hairs make drives me crazy:)

So I want to know, do you cut your boys’/husband’s hair? If you do, how did you learn?:)

Lyana