Important event in the life of a baby – his first haircut! We practice a custom (which I admit I don’t know enough about) whereby the baby has to have his head shaved within 40 days of his birth. The weight of the baby’s hair in silver is then given to charity. Why silver? Dunno, but please let me know if you do!
The picture above was taken just before the short back and sides
My dad was nominated to cut Baby A’s hair as he had asked to do it (see pic on the right). Not quite true actually – my mum had told everyone that my dad could do it easily, my dad hadn’t actually said anything! Hey, I wasn’t to know, but my dad was pretty nervous. Apparently he even contacted a professional hairdresser the previous day to see if they could come round to do it!
So, on 17th February, Baby A went on his first trip out of the house over to his grandparents. You’re meant to get a pretty clean shave of his head and we’d been told to use a Mach 3 razor to do it. My father-in-law had the bright idea of using hair clippers first, which the wife was not impressed by – she was convinced he would hate the noise. She was overruled in the end and it was the best thing we could have done.
Amazingly, Baby A didn’t scream and shout like we expected – he slept through the whole thing. Takes after his dad obviously. We were done in half an hour (everyone told us it would take a few hours to do). He didn’t even cry during his bath, so obviously having a lazy day.
Check out the finished article later!
