When I am walking with my mom and sisters, it is very easy for someone to lump me into a collective, "you have such beautiful girls." I could be wearing camouflage holding my trains in one hand and a sign saying "I AM A BOY" in the other and I will still get called a girl. Yes, I have very nice features, but they are young boy not young girl features. What makes people think I am a girl is that I have magestic curly long flowing hair. It is beautiful. When people see little people with long hair, they think girl. But I am a boy. Grr.
So why do I have this coif a kin to a 1983 prog rocker? All because of that great Jewish Torah Tradition. There is a practice called upsherin, shearing off in Yiddish. Upsherin calls for a boy to not have his hair cut until he is three years old. I am like a beautiful short redwood. I am watered and given light and sustenance (water, love, food). Eventually, I will be the tallest tree in our forest (family) but right now, I am still the world's tallest sapling (a two year old). Jewish law says that a farmer is to leave a newly planted tree unharvested for it's first three years as a gift to G-d. This is why I have not had my hair cut. Getting my hair cut will be a celebration. It will be a step forward where I will no longer be a baby. I will be ready to harvest. That sounds weird. So, sometime in February, probably the 9th, I will have my hair cut for the first time. The big question is what style should I go with? That is where I need all your help. So, for the time being, I will look like a little Fabio. Which is not that bad.
Felgate, have a better day tomorrow.
The advice we got for cutting Cole's hair that turned out to be correct was that kids hate the electric clippers...stick to scissors. lol Our philosophy was shorter means more time until we have to do it again.
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