Monday, January 21, 2008

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

                           Before......














After!!!!















As I sit here knowing I need to be in bed, yet hanging on to a slightest hope that it will snow tonight and I can spend another day with my now hairless child, I felt compelled to tell all about our "latest" adventure as new parents.  It never ceases to amaze me how we as new parents do EVERYTHING wrong the first time around.  For example....have you ever tried to put in the base of a car seat, changed a diaper wondering what is that all over the wall (pee pee), making a mass amount of formula for your child's bottles the next day and wondering why it didn't make enough when you know you measured it correctly (putting the formula in first, then adding the water to the 30 ounce line-did I pay attention in science class, does formula take up space???), way underdosing your child with his antibiotics because you read the dropper wrong (like we have time to look at that closely), try to burp your child over the shoulder and then feel it running all down your back.......I could go on and on and on!  Well, after finally hearing enough of everyone making fun of our balding child.....even Dr. Eastham recommended hair club for men (as you can see from his pictures)....we decided to get an electric razor out.....with a guard....and just cut it shorter where it didn't look so bad.  After blaming Josh's razor, everyone for making fun of his hair and calling him sloth (from the Goonies - "Baby Ruth"), Kelley for suggesting the idea, and my own darn bad luck, I have come to terms with the fact that we butchered our child's hair!  The razor was a little off to say the least, and after a long, LONG sobbing cry, I could only blame myself....and Josh a little.  I mean....it was his crappy razor.  So, we've come to terms with it and just say he has that Brad Pitt thing going on!  Pray it will grow soon!!!!

Oh, and by the way, I met one of my many future girlfriends....Ella Mackenzie Stiles.  She is a UT fan, but hey, they can't all be goodlooking and perfect!

4 comments:

Christa Lanier said...

Hey there! You are so silly! I see him everyday and I think his new haircut is ADORABLE!!! Just wanted to let you know he is still just as cute as a button!
~Christa

Anonymous said...

After attempting to cut all three of my guys hair with razors, I have decided to go with the sahggy look for now. Although, Owen informed me that he has a "rat tail" (Chad's education/or horror from his hair days)growing and we need to cut it. On a brighter note, I have heard that if you cut all their hair off at an early age, it will come in more evenly...Just go with that theory...it sounds good right? :-)

Anonymous said...

Sorry SHAGGY look!

Anonymous said...

ON BAKER'S HAIR CUT I HAPPEN TO REMEMBER WHEN HIS DADDY WAS BORN AND I SAW MY SON FOR THE FIRST TIME ...HE WAS TOTALLY BALD WITH A TAD OF PEACH FUZZ . SO JOSH , LUCKILY YOUR DAD AND I DID NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ABOUT BAD HAIR CUTS FOR THE WHOLE FIRST YEAR .
ALL THE OTHER ERRORS ,I THINK ANYONE WHO IS A PARENT CAN SAY BEEN THERE ,DONE THAT [WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MOM'S OF LIL GIRL THINGS ON THE PEE PEE FACTOR ] NOW MOM'S OF LIL BOYS CAN UNDERSTAND TOTALLY ] !
AS , A PARENT WE ALL MAKE ALL KINDS OF MISTAKES, SOME WORSE THAN OTHERS OF COURSE .
JUST LOVE AND PROTECT HIM AND DO YOUR BEST AND IT WILL BE O.K. I ' M SURE YOU AND LAURA ARE WONDERFUL PARENTS !!!
I LOVE READING YOU BLOGS THEY ARE TRULY PRECIOS TO MY HEART AND TO SEE ALL THE LOVE YOU BOTH HAVE FOR THIS YOUNG MAN. I TRY TO TELL YOU IT NEVERS MATTERS HOW OLD THEY GET THEY WILL ALWAYS BE YOUR BABY AT HEART.
WHEN YOUR STEP BROTHER , DOUGIE DIED MY WORLD STOPPED IN A SENSE AND I WILL TRULY NEVER BE THE SAME . A PIECE OF ME WENT WITH HIM .
SO AS FOR BAKERS HAIR CUT LAURA ....KEEP BLAMING JOSH'S RAZOR[SMILE ] EVEN THOUGH BAKER COULD NEVER BE ANYTHING BUT ADOREABLE SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE DOO IN A FEW YEARS HE 'LL CUT IT HIMSELF...NOW THAT COULD BE EMBARASSING .
HAVE BAKER TO CALL GRANDMOMMY YA'LLS LINE HAS STAYED BUSY 24 / 7
WE HAVE SOME LATE PLANS TO DISCUSS