Our First Do It Yourself Haircut

Athena caught Carter in our bathroom tonight cutting his own hair. He's needed a haircut for a few weeks, but he said he wasn't quite ready to go get it cut, so we let it go. It's not down to his waist or anything like that. Turns out that our son is suddenly Mr. Take Charge and acts on his impulses immediately (think back to the trip down the pool slide).

He said he was ready for a haircut and was going to give himself one. Patrick told him that he'd cut his hair for him and he agreed until he learned that Patrick would just buzz it all off. "I don't want Daddy hair", was his answer. Silent cheering from me as I like Carter with hair.

Patrick and I were both in the bedroom while he was in the bathroom and were oblivious to the hair cutting episode. Carter was supposed to be brushing his teeth. Patrick says he cut quite a bit off - I didn't notice anything severe, but if it's bad, I'll post a photo tomorrow.

Carter and I have talked before about how scissors are only for cutting paper (when he was three he cut up Hanna Andersson pajamas - thought I'd pass out from that one) and I thought we were in the free and clear. Oh well.