Big Boy Haircut

Lukie got his first big boy haircut on Saturday morning!

Lukas has had a full head of hair for most of his life. He was born with this lovely dark hair...

...but at about 3 months old, it started falling out. He can thank my genetics for both of those things-- the hair and it falling out. Same thing happened to me. He looked a little silly for a while, as the top stuff stayed on and the sides got really thin. Eventually, I had to cut what we called his "rooster tail," a tuft of hairs that just never fell out on the back of his head.

See? He rocked an awesome mohawk for a while. I loved how the top was still long and dark, but the new stuff that came in was fuzzy and blonde. Eventually, I trimmed him up so it was mostly the same length.

Since he was one-ish, I've given him periodic haircuts in the bathtub, just to take the crazy length off. He's always had wild morning hair...which I adore.

We've been talking for a while, though, about giving him a real KID haircut. He's always looked like baby Lukie with crazy baby hair, but Pete and I decided that since Daddy was cutting his own hair with the buzzer this weekend, Lukie needed a haircut, too. 

Pete buzzed the sides with the clippers, putting on a longer guard as he went higher.

Lukie did far better than expected with the clippers...probably because he got to watch his favorite show, Shaun the Sheep, while Pete worked his magic.

I started evening out the transition to scissor-cutting...apparently taking a break to take a picture with him looking  a little mangled.

Eventually, though, I got it all evened out. I think next time I'll leave it a little longer on top, but I think we did a pretty good job for our first time giving him a real haircut! I'll admit, though-- I watched some YouTube videos on cutting little boys' hair. Ah, the power of the internets.

In other news, we rearranged the entire bottom floor of our house this weekend. This room WAS the living room....

And this room (below) WAS the bedroom. In preparation for the day (far in the future) that we sell our house, I told Pete we need to figure out how to add closets to the downstairs bedroom. Hundred-year-old houses frequently don't have closets (people didn't have the sheer volume of clothes that we do), and while the upstairs bedrooms had closets added in the renovation a few years ago, the downstairs bedroom did not. Realtors can only count a room as a bedroom if it has a closet, so, we need to add a closet to make the house a 3-bedroom home instead of a 2-bedroom home.

Also, our bedroom was right off the kitchen...a fact that's a little weird to some people. We decided to switch rooms, add closets, and also, at the same time, close the door between the dining room and what is now our bedroom. It's a little hard to explain, so I'm sure there'll be an update on construction once we actually get started. For now, just know that it was a long day Saturday moving lots of furniture.

Typical. And below, Lukie helping Daddy. He loves Peter's tools. He even carries a pretend hand saw around at daycare...I think he'll like building things with his daddy someday.

There you have it. New rooms! (Man, you can sure tell the difference between my iPhone and my camera...) I have always thought I would paint living room/now bedroom gray to make the crown moulding pop near the ceiling, but I have to admit, I love having a nice, sunny, white bedroom. And the blue ceiling in there looks gorgeous with the blue quilt. I may have to rethink my plans of painting and replacing the quilt!

I will, however, be painting that living room this summer. I have never agreed with the renovator's choice of colors in basically any room in the house...so far, the kitchen trim, bathroom, and dining room have been painted, getting rid of horrible avocado green, unpainted drywall, and terrible powder blue, respectively. I still have to paint the living room (I'm thinking a muted blue), the hallway (Peter just loves when I talk about painting the two-story hallway, but it's a really nasty fleshy tone and would look so much cleaner in white), and the guest bedroom (upstairs...where I spilled gentian violet all over the wall-- if you read the post about gentian violet and saw the pics of Lukas' face, you can picture how awful THAT would be. No idea what color that might end up as it could well be Lukas' room eventually). We've also got plans for maybe adding a half bathroom upstairs...all to make our 1 bath/2 bed house into a 1.5 bath/3 bed house.

And this is how my big boy looked when I left him to go to work this morning. I spiked his hair with a little bit of my hair stuff...I'm going to get him some baby hair gel. I can't stand how adorable he is. And sooooo blonde. But seriously, where did my little baby with the crazy hair go? This kid looks like a full-on kid.

Oh, and do you see that? He still has grey eyes. I don't know if they'll ever change color. They're almost a silvery grey with the tiniest bit of brown. They're beautiful, but I know they're probably not done changing. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful boy.