My son has a TON of cowlicks in his hair. Because of this fact, I have always kept his hair short after he got in his first haircut. Before then however, I appreciated his, “Bed head” and thought it was absolutely adorable! When Sean and I had our first apartment when he was three, we would go over to my Parents’ house for breakfast sometimes on the weekend. Once we get there, my Mom would ask me if I combed his hair that morning. I would shake my head and tell her that it was, “So darn cute!“ as my mom would comb his hair to make it neater.
Sean has always had a short haircut. In the summers, I was a bit lenient because I felt that it, “Was just hair.” Sean has sported mohawks in the summer and I would have his head shaved a little bit before school started. His hair grows pretty fast!
For his entire life up until this point, he is pretty much kept it short. In the high school, he let the top grow out a little bit but still kept the fade tight around his ears and on his neck. When he was in first grade, he told me that he wished that he had hair that grows, “down” (like his friends) opposed to hear that grows, “up.” Hence, the short hair.
That is until THIS summer! My son has not to cut his hair since just before prom and that was in mid May. His hair has gotten pretty long and because it is so long, it DOES grow, “down” now. A few days ago, I told him that I didn’t like it. I told him that it made him BOT look like my little baby because his hair was so long!
This morning, my mom was affixing my tens unit onto my knee and we do that in my bathroom. Sean was in the kitchen making himself some breakfast. He told us that we keep my house too cold but that is how it is! It’s better for me to be cold then too warm! So Sean got a shirt from his bedroom because he said he was freezing. He stopped at the bathroom door to ask if the shirt was too small on him. When he walked over, I got a look at his, “Bed head.”
I started to laugh and told him that the shirt looks fine on him and kept laughing. He asked me why I was laughing and I told him he looks like, “The guy from ‘Flock of Seagulls.’”
The front of his hair is not that long but the sides stuck up just like this picture! I kept laughing and laughing! Once I showed him the picture, he looked at himself in the mirror and called me a, “Bully!” Which just made me laugh harder!
He does have senior pictures this year and I am hoping to get them done in the summer before school starts so it is a little bit cheaper. I’m not sure what he will do with hair athen but in the meantime, I will tell him every time he wakes up with hair like that not that it’s, “So darn cute” but that he looks like, “The guy from ‘Flock of Seagulls.’”
Maybe I am a, “Bully!” But I still think it really DOES look, “So darn cute!”