Eli's First Hair Cut

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We took Eli to get his first professional hair cut on Saturday, January 9th. He has been pretty nervous, I guess you could say, around strangers lately, so I was interested to see how this was going to go. Lately every time a stranger says hi to Eli, or sometimes even smiles at him, he gets scared and clutches for me--even pinching my arm really hard. Even when our friends come over, he won't let me leave the room by myself. I'm hoping this is just a phase and will be over with soon.

There was a little wait when we got there, so we headed next door to the Dollar Tree and looked around for awhile. We found some Elmo books, Sesame Street flash cards, and Elmo coloring books. 4 books, 2 coloring books and 2 boxes of flash cards for 6 dollars! What a deal!

We went back to Snip-its and let Eli walk around for awhile before they called his name. As soon as I sat him down in the seat, he lunged for me with both arms, a panic look on his face. He was fine holding on to my arms for a minute and then I was able to just give him my hands to hold. I tried explaining what she was doing the whole time, brushing his hair, spraying him with the water, etc. She was really nice, the lady who cut his hair, and really fast. The whole thing probably took less than 10 minutes. He liked looking in the mirror, watching her. JR was taking pictures while I was occupying Eli. After he was done, they gave him a little bottle of bubbles.
I was so proud that he didn't cry, he really did a lot better than I thought he would. And he looks so handsome with his little boy hair cut!

Apparently it was an exhausting ordeal for him, since he fell asleep on the way home.