swingsets and haircuts

Friday afternoon, P's friend Grace invited him to a carnival her school was having. Sporting a fresh haircut, off he went for some time on the bouncy houses, playing games, and at the face painting station. When Grace returned to our house, she brought Swiper the Fox with her! Due to time constraints, the face painting artist only had time to paint on a fox, so "Swiper" is missing his signature blue face mask, but P was fine with that. Grace stayed to play for a few minutes, and all three of the kids played on the swingset, in the sandbox, and with an ESPN bat and ball set P got for his second birthday. C is also sporting a fresh haircut, but his has "spikies" in the front. Want the full story?

We headed to the barber shop after school Friday, and on the way P said that he wanted to grow his hair long, like Rapunzel's in "Tangled Up" (Tangled). Daddy A, who is not a big fan of long hair on boys, tricked P into convinced P he wanted to ask Tommy to cut his hair "like Prince Charming". So P asked for a "Prince Charming" haircut and was quite pleased with the result (the haircut we always ask Tommy to give him), and then it was C's turn in the barber's chair. Tommy asked if C would be getting the same haircut as P, and P said he thought C wanted a different haircut than P's. He went on to suggest that C "might like spikies". Now, P had a very brief love of "spikies" himself (as you can see in the header photo of the blog), so Daddy A and I happened to know that if C got the same haircut P had just gotten (and that the boys usually get), and then Tommy put a little product in the front and spiked C's hair up a bit, the product would wash out and could either be reapplied later to "spike" the hair, OR the product could be left out and would leave the "Prince Charming" haircut. Voila! The boys got "different" haircuts, and all four of us were happy with the results. (By the way, Daddy A got a "Prince Charming" haircut on Friday, too.)