Introducing the New Benjamin

I experienced a rite of motherhood this week: discovering your child has cut their own hair! I was in my room doing some packing for our upcoming trip when Julia came upstairs and we had this conversation:

me: Hey J. What are you doing?
Julia: nothing... but you might want to come downstairs?
me: Why? I'm in the middle of doing something - can it wait a few minutes?
Julia: wellll, I don't think you're going to like what Benjamin is doing
me: What is Benjamin doing?
Julia: ummmm
me: Am I going to be mad?
Julia: I don't know
me: please tell me what he's doing so I can be prepared
Julia: wellll, he's cutting his hair
me (running down the upstairs hallway): BENJAMIN, STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!! STOP! BENJAMIN STOP!

Reaching the kitchen I was confronted with this face:

At which point I was speechless and started to laugh because it was either that or cry. Walking into the living room we discovered the rest of the evidence:

And since we were leaving in just a couple of days we immediately made a trip to Snip-Its to get it fixed. Oh, did I mention we had just gotten haircuts there THE DAY BEFORE?!?!

Benj didn't leave a whole lot for the barber to work with so he experienced his first buzz cut! Thankfully, he was happy with the result:

I can't lie I'm a little sad to see his surfer boy look go. But he's still as cute as ever!

A funny endnote - while I was typing this, Ben came up and looked at the pictures and this happened:

Ben: who's that?

me: That's you, Benj

him: How old was I?

me: that was from yesterday, did you forget what you look like?

him: yes!