sam came home tonight & i had pork chops thawing in the fridge ready for a lovely little meal for this family. but it just wasn't one of those cook a nice meal & sit down as a family to eat dinner kinda nights. it was gorgeous out & we were feeling restless. do you have those nights? i had plenty of errands that needed running & it's always easier to do 'em with sam. item number one? haircuts for scraggly haired little boys.
i'd been putting off haircuts for these guys for months. not for a lack of needing 'em though. elliot has double cowlicks & has always had crazy hair. it does what it wants. parker's hair is super fine & straight & makes for a pretty sweet mullet. despite the need for new 'do's, i was dreading getting them done because my boys are historically pretty resistant to anything hair/head related.
anywho, you can see below that the need was great. and it went about as smoothly with elliot as we had expected, ie: screaming, crying, red-faced resistance. but parker was an old pro! nothing a little distraction with the iPad & a sucker couldn't cure. obviously it was my job to document it all.
^^were those duck lips? pretty sure those were duck lips.
also, catching fire just ended & i pretty much hated it. i really didn't get attached to any of the characters like you do in the book but i guess that's to be expected in the adaptation to screen. is it weird to love the way the hunger games series makes your heart hurt, though? it makes me sick to think about a world where all this stuff would happen but at the same time the emotion is so raw & desperate & i can't help but be sucked in.
and last? i just watched the video for "midnight" by coldplay & there's a greater chance i'll have nightmares about that than hunger games. weird!
Wait! You hated catching fire? We can no longer be friends. I can, however, still be friends with those adorable little boys!
ReplyDeleteYou caught the sarcasm, right? . . . right?!
Deletehaha, well all I'm saying is I don't feel the characters were developed very well. BUT, I figure it's gotta be pretty hard to do with any book made into movie. You read pages & pages & pages about these people & then they get like 5 minutes of air time & you just don't feel it. But it's ok, we can not be friends for this... you're stuck with me as family though!! :P
DeleteI've never actually had my kids hair professionally cut. But we've been talking about taking Easton somewhere when he turns two. Kid's hair is out of control. And I predict it will go about as well as it did for Elliot. lol
ReplyDeletehaha, in all actuality it went better than expected. I knew there would be tears & wrestling & screaming but he got over it quick. I probably shoulda done it sooner ;) And we did it at Great Clips where their first ever haircut is always free! We've gotten hair cuts at those kids specialty places before & I don't think they do any better of a job. Parker's actually had some pretty horrible cuts by those people. Can't wait to see what you decide to do w/ E's hair!
Deletethis is EXACTLY how BOTH my boys are. Rawley's hair is all sorts of crazy with double cowlicks and quasi curly hair and Dawson's cowlicks are just as knarly with straight straggly hair. Both are resistant to be strapped down anywhere so it's a huge recipe for disaster! I'm thinking of just buzzing it for summer since I can't get a good haircut in. I hate the buzz cut, but whatever...
ReplyDeletehaha, I feel your pain! I had all these pictures of super cute little boy cuts that I showed them on my phone and uh... welllll, not so much. The ladies did borderline BOWL cuts before I pressed them further to blend it better. Maybe later in life they'll hold still & have the cute trendy cuts I envision in my head. Good luck w/ the buzz cut ;)
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