Finally, a haircut

As attached as I have been to Gus's hair, I decided it was finally time to give him his first real haircut. In addition to the fact that I just wasn't cutting it because I've been in denial about him not being a baby anymore, a number of people have referred to Gus as 'she', so I figured it really must be time. Either that or I need to buy Gus some more manly clothes. But anyway. My mom cut our hair most of the time growing up, so I figured how hard could it be? So I bought a pair of barber's shears and gave Gus a sucker, and we were ready to go. Kevin took these pictures, so generally you can't see exactly what he meant to show you.

Here Gus is, ready to go.


This gives you and idea of how long it was in back.... pretty long.


Halfway done......


Rat tail - almost done!


Done, for the most part. Kevin never did take a decent picture of him after it was done, so you'll just have to wait and see for yourself. I think I did an ok job, but in hindsight it would have been a better idea to have my mom do it and me observe or something. Whatever. We'll see what happens when he needs the next haircut.


Aside from getting his first real haircut, this weekend we also went to pick out our Christmas tree. Kevin always likes to go to Daniken Tree Farm near Greenville to cut down the tree himself, so that's where we went. We were looking for a short-needled tree (I guess a fir of some sort?) but the first place they took us had almost none left, except for really big trees. So we talked to the guy that dropped us off, and he took us to another place that should have more. And there were none there at all. So we kept walking and finally found another area with some and I finally convinced Kevin to settle because Gus was frozen and it was lunch time. Then when we went to pick up the wreaths we had picked out beforehand, one was gone. All in all, we were fairly unhappy with our trip and probably won't be going back there next year. Sadly, I didn't even realize just how small our tree was until I got home later that night and saw it. It is so small it is not even funny. That just goes to show how cold and miserable it was, and how bad the selection was out there. So depressing. Nonetheless, it's a cute small tree, so it will work.

But here are Gus and Uncle Matt searching for a tree.

Here we are in front of the tree we chose. It should have been a hint when you couldn't even see the tree behind us. Alas.


So the tree is up, some of my shopping is done, and now Gus has a haircut worth of his Christmas pictures.....hopefully we can get those done soon! Also on the to-do list, figure out a picture for the Christmas card. It was so much easier when we only had Satchel to pose......