Haircuts

The boy's hair has not been cut since December so they were looking pretty shaggy. The haircuts here cost a small fortune though! Tony got his haircut and it cost him $31. We decided to take matters into our own hands and cut their hair ourselves.

We borrowed some clippers from some ward members and went to work. Tony did the clipper work, and I did the scissor work. It started out alright. We had the kids watching a movie while we cut, but things quickly went downhill.

Ryan started freaking out when the hair started sticking to him. I had to hold Ben down while Tony used the clippers. After that, he screamed as loud as he could in short ear piercing burst while I finished cutting his hair. Meanwhile, Tony was trying to give Ryan a bath to get all the hair off, but Ryan considers getting a bath equivalent to living death so he was screaming his head off.

Poor Leah was feeling neglected laying on the floor by herself as was probably scared to death with all the loud crying noise so she was screaming as loud as she could. Well, Ryan finally got his bath, Ben's hair was finally cut and with a sigh he let out one more screaming request.... Gigi's (grandma's) house. He had had enough and I guess he thought his parents were torturing him so he wanted the grandparents!

We weren't able to get any pictures of the boys after their haircuts due to grumpy behavior, so the after pictures are from the next day. Looking at the before and after pictures, I can't tell much difference, but in person they look much better. However, we are hoping that these haircuts will last another three months until we go back home, so that we can put away amateur haircutting days behind us.

The before pictures.

This is how much Ben liked his haircut!

The after pictures.