’bout Jack and Annie …

(two American kids, living outside D.C.)

Monday, July 9, 2007

weekend update

this edition of the weekend update holds something special -- jack's first haircut. on saturday, after watching a little wimbeldon, we headed out before lunch to "cartoon cuts" to get jack's locks snipped.

mommy was trepidatious ... how would it go? would her little baby be forever gone? so many questions. but ... we all realized the time had come for the wings over jack's ears to fly, fly away.

daddy and jack wait patiently to be called:




after trying to strap jack in to the seat with this lame little seatbelt, it became apparent that the same boy who broke out of leg restraints in the hospital at 4 days old would need more stringent controls. so he sat on daddy's lap and gloria, our stylist, started snipping.




jack wasn't so sure about this, so he looked to daddy for some reassurance.




despite reassurances, jack was decidedly unhappy:




but he hung in there like a trooper ...




... while gloria just took a little more off the back:




in the end, jack emerged looking quite like a big boy with a new coif and just a few tears shed.



for the rest of the weekend, we tried to do things jack would *like* (or at least things that didn't make him cry).

they included:

  • playing with his sand and water table
  • going to the playground
  • walking to the plaza for breakfast with mommy (a true 6 miles, grandpa, now that the stroller pedometer is recalibrated!)
  • going to the garden center
  • going to the pool

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