Oh jeez.

Ben insisted on cutting the boys' hair a couple of weeks ago. They both needed cuts really badly. I reminded him to do a 1 on the bottom, a 3 on the top, and to blend in between.

Not how it turned out.

Micah was fighting Ben so badly that, when Ben had the trimmers on a 1 and was trying to do the bottom, Micah jerked in a way that the trimmers veered into what should have been 3 territory. So Ben shaved Micah's whole dang head:

He seriously looks like a chemo patient. Whenever we go the store, I see people glancing in an astonished/sympathetic manner at Micah. I can tell they're thinking, "Oh, that poor kid with cancer..." Nope, folks. My husband just shaved his head, and his hair is clear, so.....

This new cut has made Micah all the more insistent on wearing my garments on his head as fake hair. My garments stick to his head so much better now that he's all stubbly up there. Don't worry - when we leave the house, the garments stay in the house. And he cries the whole time we're gone. When we have visitors, and they try to lift up the garmies to see Micah's new haircut, he says, "Top it!" and replaces the garmies/hair again. Sigh.

Then it was Dylan's turn. Dylan has been begging me to let him get a mohawk for years now. I've never acquiesced, but he talked his dad into it:

When Ben was all done, Dylan came dancing out in his underwear. He was soooo excited that he was literally dancing all around the house.

A gal in my ward who does hair says that it's very hard to cut a straight mohawk, and that Ben did a really good job.

I, obviously, hate it. But whatever. If he wants ugly hair, that's his deal. I did tell him, however, that I want him to grow it in for his baptism. To me, mohawks and baptismal fonts don't really go together.