The Beckman Blog

They’ve needed them for a while, but last night I decided I shouldn’t wait any longer and bed time needed to be pushed back for haircuts.  Here are the before and after pictures:

Jonathan

Unfortunately, this is the best picture I have of his long hair. Apparently I haven't taken any pictures of him for a while.

I promise I didn't mess up his eyes when I cut his hair.

See - his eyes and smile are still fine. But all the good pictures are blurry!

Jonathan said he likes his new haircut.  He and Emma agreed that he looks very different, but better.  Now he doesn’t have long hair like a girl.  It’s not perfect but I think I’m improving.  And the fact that the clippers take care of most of the work helps a lot.

I hadn’t planned to do Emma’s hair last night, but she was insistent that she wanted to look like Jonathan.  I convinced her that shorter hair (but still MUCH longer than Jonathan’s) would be good enough.  No way am I buzzing her hair!

This picture turned out bluish, but I loved her smile so I'm sharing it anyway.

Here's a non-blued "before" picture.

Emma’s took a lot more work.  And a lot more tears.  When I’m basically buzzing Jonathan’s head it doesn’t matter as much if he moves a little – the clipper guard ensures it doesn’t get cut too much.  But Emma’s hair was much more demanding.  To get it even, I needed her to hold still and not bend her head.  If you’ve ever tried to get a three year old to hold her head still for more than a minute or two, you know exactly how well that went.  But we did finally get it to be at least acceptable.  And no, I didn’t end up needing to buzz her hair.  Thankfully.

Not perfect, but not too bad – especially since this is only my second time cutting girls’ hair.  And Emma says she loves it.  Bryan and Jonathan say it looks great.  So maybe I did a fairly good job after all.  :)

Two down, one to go.  No, not Kathryn.  (I don’t want to touch her hair for a while – a trim may end up much more drastic!)  Me.  Bryan will be relieved when I finally get my hair cut again.  We’ll see when that happens.  I’m definitely not going to cut it myself, though!  :)

And, for the fun of it, here are some other pictures from this month, for your enjoyment:

Jonathan for Dr Seuss Day

Kathryn wanted to join in the picture fun, too.

Playing detectives. I cut out the inner circles for Jonathan - he was going to do it himself but cutting inside a paper is hard! They needed those cut out so they can see through the magnifying glasses (which were later cut out as well). The empty part of the paper is for them to write down what they see. It was so cute to watch them going around peering through their "magnifying glasses" around the house. :)

This was a rocket ship to explore the solar system. The big chair is for me. Kathryn didn't have a chair but, as with airplanes, lap babies were allowed. Note the Craisins in the back - of course we had to bring along a snack! Jonathan led the tour, including handing out sun goggles for when we were visiting the sun. Then we ran into aliens so Jonathan and Emma had to put on space suits and leave the rocket to go fight them off. Thankfully they won and the Earth was saved. What a trip!

Kathryn decided she did have a seat after all. She actually loves to put herself into containers. I don't know what it is about that, but she does it a lot. It's funny when she does it with the stuffed animal basket or her toy box. :) Here Daddy helped her rocket ship seat blast off on its own. She loved it. :)

Blurry, but a smile. I couldn't resist. :)