Iver's First Hair Cut

Looking back at photos from the fall, it's amazing how much Iver's hair has grown in a few months.  I mean, the picture we have from our pumpkin patch shows him sporting a naturally short style.

Fast forward to this winter and his hair has started to get a little unruly.  We made a less-than-successful attempt to trim his bangs, which left him with something close to the look a Canadian hockey player from the 80s might aspire to (this is not a compliment).

All of this led to the conclusion that the boy did indeed need his first (professional) haircut.  While I was sad to see his super cute curls in the back go, he now looks like he belongs to this decade.  As this sequence of photos attest, he started out curious about and patient with the whole process.  He was totally fine until the very end of the cut when the hairdresser tried to take his picture.

I wanted to end this post by showing he's happy with his new look while zooming around the tot gym at the community center -- even if his parents still miss his baby curls ...