Haircut

We last cut Evan's hair when Steph's parents were here over a month ago and recently he's been looking a little floppy. I know that's kind of the style these days, but it's not one we're huge fans of so this weekend Steph felt it was time to tackle this challenge again. In the past she's given him haircuts in the bathroom right before a bath but it's been a little problematic cleaning up afterwards -- you want to get him into the bath quickly to wash of the itchy hair bits, but the floor always seems to end up kinda damp after the bath and damp hair does not vacuum up so well. Also, as Evan has become more and more mobile it has become harder and harder to get him to sit still for very long. In fact, the only place he seems content to hang out for a while is his high chair (mostly because there's food involved, but still), and since it has the added benefit of raising him to a workable height it was an obvious solution.

So, we carted the high chair into the front yard (to mostly avoid the cleanup issue), draped it in a towel and Evan in plastic (Steph has a little do-it-yourself haircut kit that includes a simple smock), and we got to work. Actually Steph did almost all the work, I just had to make the dog do tricks and play Near and Far the whole time to keep Evan entertained. He wasn't so sure about this whole haircut process in the beginning:

but he handled it pretty well:

Here he is once we're all done and he got to play with the non-sharp tools (i.e. the comb):

It's nothing too fancy, but I think Steph did a pretty good job.