Eli's Hair....

My son Eli is well know for his beautiful long curly locks of hair, but lately its been getting out of control!

For a while now we've been talking about having it cut and have had a few failed attempts (and screaming fits) at the hairdressers. Finally a friend of mine suggested that I try her mobile hair dresser and the plan was for her to come to mine. After clashing schedules it turned out that we would go to her, so off we went.

When we arrived I was not surprised that Eli was having none of it. We chased him, we tried to bribe him, and after nearly giving up my friend Claire just calmly picked him up walked over to the chair, sat down and put some game on her phone and we were good to go.

This hair dresser has a lot of experience with troublesome kids and just got down to work and cut a fair bit of his hair.
She gave me some of his curls as I almost cried watching his beautiful curls go.

I knew it was the right thing to do as it was annoying him and he gets mistaken for a girl a lot, which is not a problem now but he starts pre school in January and its not about him being teased.

Once we agreed on a manageable length she finished, in a view for us to go back another time and finish off, as we want it much shorter but didn't want to push our luck all at once. It really was very long.

I found this experience hard as Eli's hair is part of his personality and its hard when you realise your baby isn't a baby anymore. My little boy is growing up. We never had this with Jacob. Eli seemed to progress and grow so quickly that I think his hair for me was the last thing I could keep babyish.

I will do an update once its finished.

Did any of your children's milestones affect you more than you thought?

H xxx