"No," I say immediately, a little sharper than the situation warrants. "Not yet."
My dad laughs. "He's got a mullet."
I don't say anything. It's possible that my son has the beginnings of a mullet, but I don't care. Rob and my brother Sean both had mullets at one point, and they turned out (almost) perfectly normal. Besides, Westley is only 16 months old. I think you have to be at least 2 before anything your hair and anything it does can be slapped with a style name.
Business in the front, party in the back.I'm planning to put off Westley's first haircut as long as I can. I'm thinking I'll break out the scissors when his hair starts falling in his eyes. Unfortunately, it seems like I'm the only one who thinks this is a good idea. My father thinks it's high time for a mulletectomy, and every time my mother has Westley on her lap, she starts fiddling with his fringe, saying, "You could put it in a little ponytail." Rob winces a little when I mention the hair, and says it looks "kinda silly."
"But he's a baby," I protest.
"Yeah, and your aesthetics are different than mine. You think because he's a baby it looks good, and I think it looks silly."
"I don't think it looks good, necessarily," because I don't. I think it looks a little haphazard and uneven, but that's not the point. "It's just that...he's a baby."
Rob thinks I'm being ridiculous (which I kind of am) for being attached to Westley's crazy-looking baby hair. I don't even know why I'm attached to it, except that I've always had long hair myself so not getting a haircut seems kind of normal to me. And I really, really like long hair on little boys. But Westley doesn't have cute little-boy-with-long-hair hair yet. So what difference would a trim in the back make?
For reasons I can't explain, it just seems wrong to cut it. Maybe it's because it took Westley so long to have any hair at all. Cutting it now would be...insulting to those hair follicles that worked so hard. Or maybe it's as simple as me not wanting to give up another part of the baby. Westley looks so much more grown up every day--more and more like a little boy with each passing minute, it seems. As much as I love having a walking, talking dude to share the world with, I miss the little baby who needed to be swaddled all the time, who consistently fell asleep while strapped to Rob's chest by the baby carrier, and on whose sweet, bald head I accidentally dripped chocolate on his first Valentine's Day.
Westley, 4 weeks old, totally bald. I don't think he even has any eyebrow hair here.
Oh, God. I'm going to cry like a total girl when Westley's baby fringe is gone, aren't I? I'm going to save it in a little baggy, taped in the back of the baby book (if there were a baby book). What the hell is wrong with me? I mean, it's just hair.
And, for now, it's still attached to my son. Rob says he gets that I'm sentimentally attached to it, but I can tell he would really prefer it be trimmed sooner rather than later. He says, "When it's all smoothed down in the back, it looks fine. But when he wakes up and he looks like Doc Brown, I think, eh."
"What's wrong with Doc Brown?"
...and they lived long-hairedly ever after.
I still don't think Westley's hair is too long in the back, but I'm also willing to admit that my judgment may be clouded by my increasing attachment to his "baby-ness." I'm almost tempted to trim his hair myself first thing tomorrow and get the whole thing out of the way so I can move on with my life as mom to a big, grown-up toddler boy. It would be nice not to have to hear about Westley's "mullet" any more. On the other hand...awww, my little baaaay-beeee...
What do you think, oh fine people of the Internet? Does Westley need a haircut? How long did you wait for your child's first haircut? Am I making a big deal out of nothing?
(Please say no.)
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8 comments:
Well, MiniMe was completely bald until after she turned 2. But she'll be 4 in June, & she still hasn't hd a haircut. I've thought about evening it out so the back & the front are the same lenght, but that would mean cutting off the sweet ringlets at the bottom. Can't do it. I've had stick-straight hair all my life. Those curls represent hours of my mom yanking my head around, curling irons, perms, sleeping on picky curlers; it's some sort of strange generational progression for me.
But Westley? Maybe you should just trim it a teeny bit, to get everybody off your back. Or his neck. I don't think you're making a big deal out of nothing; they are. I do think it looks a little messy, though. Sorry. & I completely love the long hair boys, too. What about that logic that if you cut hair it grows faster?
Um, my super secret verification word is potho. Just want to say I am not.
Luna has lots of hair. And, some strands fall into her face. People bugged me for ages to trim her bangs. And, I just couldn't bring myself to do it. Dmitry (husband) wanted to give the whole hair a trim. "Like a boy cut??!" I asked. Was he crazy? Plus, the back is growing in little curls and it looks cute. And, I want her to have long hair, duh. But, after awhile, I did give in and trim her bangs. Because it did get to the point where I couldn't see her eyes. :) I almost cried a little. You know what? It grows back. And, fast. At least on Luna. Maybe you can take comfort in that? It made me feel better. Silly, I know.
I put off the "mulletectomy" for several weeks, too. But I finally cut his hair and it actually made him look even more like a boy baby (if that even makes sense). He's had one more since then. He needs a little trim in the back again, but I'm going to let it get nice and shaggy on top :)
Ironically, I think the reason I don't like the Doc-Brown-ness of it is at least in part because he looks less like a baby that way to me. I kind of want the back trimmed so that he'll look a little more like he did when he was all tiny and stuff.
Emma is 6 months and has very little hair but she does have one really long piece growing behind her right ear and I will never cut it. It is the only long piece she has and I love it.
Mullets are pretty cool though and not just for hicks anymore but this is coming from a Brooklynite where the SFLB (short in the front, long in the back) even looks good on the ladies (me personally)!
Rock your sons mullet locks with pride! I can only hope Emma has a mullet some day.
Aw, from the pics I don't think he needs a cut--he had an adorable head of baby hair! Un-even-ness is the name of the game as they grow up. That said, I DID give in to my husband this weekend and we trimmed-up my daughter's hair. I thought I'd be more emotional, watching her fuzzy wisps buzzed off, but honestly, she looks better w/out the crazy fuzzies. Still, it wouldn't have been my choice, had it been all up to me. I think leaving a toddler's head alone until s/he's 2 is a fine tradition.
Don't cut it! I cut Liam's hair when he was around 15 mos. or so. He had these lovely ringlets, but everyone in the family said he looked too much like a girl, except Kevin who generally has no opinion on hair length. I loved those curls, and they were baby curls that never grew back. Not that I don't like his blond little-boy hair now, but I miss the ringlets. I swore if I had another son I would let his hair grow and frame his face with those lovely curls.
Which is what I'm doing with Kiri, although from his pictures you can see that he is a slooooowwwwwww grower of hair, and only recently, right before his 2nd birthday, did he get a single strand of hair that is long enough to curl. He's going to be in kindergarten before his hair warrants a cut at the rate it's growing now, and I can't say I'm upset about it.
I always notice the toddler boys with the longish curls and ringlets, and they all look adorable. Let it grow I say.
If you need ammunition, point out that when he hits 18-24 months, he'll hit the point where he won't want anybody except mom and dad touching him, and haircuts will become a total nightmare. Why go through that if you don't have to???
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