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So, ArayMonkey is sporting a new hairdo.  A nice and short buzz cut all the way around.  Of course he wasn’t to pleased about getting this haircut, but then we hope he’s learned his lesson.  It all goes something like this . . .

Yesterday, Andy’s friend Hannah was over, and the two were doing like they normally do.  Both are pretty active, loud kids, and they both have the “wonderful” quality of seeking to do whatever they set their minds to.  Most of the time this is very constructive – they make forts, they scale fences, they jump and somersault their way around the living room, they race bikes and imagine great stories to play out.  Every now and again though things go awry.

So there they were playing in the living room, and I head down to the garage and out front to talk to a friend.  I was gone for no more than five minutes.  Upon returning, these two are scurrying out of the master bathroom like cockroaches in a room where the lights have just been turned on.  I ask, “What’s going on?”  Andy replies, “I wanted to spike my hair.”  I think – no harm, he does this every now and again, obsessing about his hair like some teenage boy.  I figure he had been applying Karen’s gel or moose, and happily instruct them to stay out of the master bedroom.  Mind you, I should have looked a little more closely at my son, but needed to head back outside to give my friend something.

Here’s where it gets good . . . Friend leaves, and I return inside where I soon learn from Karen that Andy and Hannah in their attempt to spike Andy’s hair had pulled out the electric trimmer I use to trim my goatee, and blazed a nice inch wide swath across the top of Andy’s head.  A blonde clearcut – a landing strip if you will.  I probably shouldn’t have laughed so hard, but I couldn’t help it.  Even now a day later, I chuckle.  Of course the laughter made Andy a little self conscious and he was adamant that he didn’t need his haircut.  He worried that people would laugh at him, and I tried to explain that he’d already given them enough ammo, but ultimately encouraged him with the truth that people love him more for what’s on the inside than what’s on the outside.

Besides – I assured him the comb over he was pushing for wouldn’t work.

Tags: Andy, haircut, Hannah