Ben's first "Official" haircut

First of all, I need to start out by announcing that today is Ben's 1/2 birthday!  That's right - it was 6 months ago today that the Benjamin Xavier Rudyk was born.  We can hardly believe that its been six months already.  And we certainly can't believe how much he's grown, and grown, and grown....  How much more is he going to change in the next six months?  I can't even imagine...

I've been giving Ben haircuts for the past few months, but I'm not very good at it.  My scissors aren't very sharp and I'm not very fast, so every time I comb out some some hair to cut, he moves and I wind up getting just a part of what I wanted to trim.  Hence, he's been sporting a somewhat uneven shaggy, but very cute, haircut.   I've done a sufficient job, but the length on top was getting very long and we had to flip it over the top like the Donald Trump comb-over, so it was time to call in a professional to really give him a proper hair cut.

Here's Ben with his "Shag" before his new haircut...

Jill's friend and beautician, Jackie, offered to cut Ben's hair any time, so we took her up on it.   I've never seen a baby in a haircut cape - it was a pretty funny site.  It looked like Ben's head was sticking out of a black ant hill.

He didn't like this part very much.

But overall he tolerated all the fussing of his hair very well.  In fact, Jackie said that he was the best baby client that she ever had!

At one point Ben started enjoying the experience more and he started smiling a lot more.

I had to wonder what it was it was that was making him happy and what it was that he was staring at.

After looking through all the pictures, I think I realized what it was...

That's my boy!

Thank you Jackie!  Ben looks great!

His first official haircut was a success!