Posted by Jim at October 8th, 2006

The “make up” day for school pictures is this week. Our kids didn’t get to the regular school pictures day because pictures were taken on a day that they don’t go to school. Fortunately it turns out that “make up” day is on a day when they do go to school. It’s just that if the pictures turn out to be bad, there is no way to change them.

Trouble is, we know now that they will be bad pictures. Why?

Some of you may remember a story arc in “Calvin and Hobbes” in which Calvin brings hair gel and shapes his hair into a shark fin (or something like that).

Well, that’s not really an option for our kids now. They put a chair next to the stove and climbed up to the cupboard above the stove.

The second shelf above the stove is where we keep the scissors–safely out of kids’ reach.

You can guess what follows that. The pile of hair under the piano. “My Pretty Pony’s” new (and much shorter) tail. The larger hair pile next to the toy box mixed with multi-colored string (the origins of which we will someday discover).

In summary:
The scissors are now in a new place.

The haircuts are not our fault. *

* Well, sort of. I was downstairs in the basement when it happened. While I didn’t hear them do anything, there was a point at which it got really, really quiet. Those of you with kids will know that that’s the point at which I should have run upstairs.