Well, maybe just the haircut part.  Jaden turned 6 on Saturday (thanx to all of you wishing him a Happy Bday - it was great!) and he gave *us* a gift yesterday.

Jaden decided to cut his own hair yesterday.

update: here are the pictures

He came up to the wife and said “do you like my haircut?” and when my wife gasped (a purely natural reaction) Jaden’s eyes got all big and started welling up.

*awww heart string tugging* 

We made sure he knew that it’s ok, everything’s fine and we’re not mad, but please don’t take matters like this into your own hands.  You can dress yourself, tie your own shoes, make your own breakfast, brush your own teeth, but DON’T cut your own hair.

I even wrote a little song for him, that goes a little somethin’ like this

You don’t tug on Superman’s cape…
You don’t spiiiit, into the wiiind…
You don’t pull, the mask, of dat ol’ Lone Ranger
and you DON’T CUT YOUR OWN HAIR OFF YOUR HEAD WHEN YOU’RE SIX YEARS OLD!

We’ve scheduled an emergency onsite self-haircut-repair technician to come out to the house. 

The wife and I were trying to remember how old Caitlin was when she did it.  She was either 6 or younger… and she had much longer hair so it was more obvious, but this is definitely not something Jaden has a monopoly on.  I remember finding my first pair of trimmers when I was 12 and I cut into my widow’s peak and was absolutely surprised at how fast and easily it cut - I figured I’d have to chop at it a little bit but nooooo, it went straight up and inch and a half into my purely perfect coiffed hair in no time flat.  That was not the easiest thing to hide.

So now I turn the question to you:

You know what a girl I am. I never cut my own hair. But then again, my mother was so vain I started going to a real hairdresser when I was three.

Don’t worry; boy hair grows really, really fast, well, not that fast, but it’s easier to grow back out since they don’t have to grow out as much as us girls.

I want to see the pic. Send it to me.

Jigsaw’s only four. She hasn’t cut her own hair yet.

Triangles were my favorite shape to cut into my hair when I was a kid.

Triiiiiiiangle man, triiiiannnnngle man, doin’ the things a triangle can…………………..

ok, I’ll stop now.

I believe I was 10… and I’ve been doing it ever since!

Absurdist, dangit! I even went home during lunch and forgot to snap a pic. tonight tho… before pool league probably, I promise

Avi, How do you know? Maybe she uses her teeth.

Poppy, there was this guy who kept failing at lifting up this heavy TV straight up from the ground to the top of his deck, which was about 4′ high. I was told that I had to give him advice but could only use one word of advice. After seeing a long wide board off to the side, I came up with my answer.

Triangled.

heheheheheh

sourpuss, you “believe?” You don’t know if you were 10 or not? Gullible you are NOT.

It was apparent early on that I would lose my hair. I never did anything to hurry it along.

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UPDATE: I’ve posted the picture of Jaden’s self-haircut. He’s still 3.56 million times cuter than me.

Mr. Fab, hurrying things along never helps anyone. Unless I’m in a hurry and someone is in my way, then get out of my way!

BlondeBlogger, that’s one of my favorite numbers!

ADORABLE!!!

Poppy I know!

and here’s him with the “correction” cut - cuz what else can you do when he cuts so much off? You have to cut it all short!

AWWWWWWWWW! I just wanna pinch his little cheekies!!!