what you don't want to see...

the man's hands shaking uncontrollably as he cuts your baby's hair for the first time...

all those pretty curls...gone. so sad.

what a nightmare experience: was gonna take him to the girl who cut my hair, but that was 30 minutes away and daddy was threatening to get out the clippers...NO WAY!!! so i went to a salon in the mall...how bad could it be?! just wanted someone to trim up over his ears and take a little length off the back. it went something like this:

set jackson in a chair so that i could get out my camera for a "before" shot.

SCREAMING little red head!

camera battery turns out to be dead...almost decide to forget it because his first haircut won't be documented properly.

SCREAMING LOUDER little red head!!

put jackson on my lap and started shoveling a cookie COVERED in frosting into his mouth.

SCREAMING SO MUCH LOUDER little red head!!! wait, a cookie? maybe i'll calm down...

man with shaky hands (who, by the way, doesn't speak english very well--does he understand what i want him to do???) brings his scissors to take the first snip.

YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME--SCREAMING THE LOUDEST EVER little red head!!!!

mommy pins his little, flailing body to her 8 months pregnant body and holds on as tight as possible telling the man, "just even it up if you can"...mommy now COVERED with snot and hair and cookie and frosting.

only "after" pictures and a single curl in a plastic bag...i think i'm going to pretend that his first haircut never happened and try again...when he's 5.