Wednesday was—finally—hair cut day. Around 11am we all headed across the bridge to the old-fashioned barber shop on the Stonington side of the estuary. Unfortunately we walked in just as the barber was getting ready to go to lunch. He had two customers in the shop (one in the chair and one waiting) then he would be taking an hour off for lunch. As the temperature was in the 50’s already we decided to head for the playground.
Seems we weren’t the only ones with that idea. There were more children at the playground than I have seen there ever. Ages ranged from newborn to about 6, as older children were all in school. Johann had a blast running with the other children and playing. He spent a good amount of time also talking to some of the other mothers and nannies that were there with their charges. Rather conspicuously I was the only adult male present!)
After three months of cold, snow and ice, all the adults (and children) were relieved to be able to run and play in light weight jackets and sweaters. After a good 90 minutes of running and playing, we slowly made our way back down the block to the barber shop. After a short wait for the barber to get back, Johann and I got our shaggy mops (well mine was a shaggy mop, Johann’s hair was just long) trimmed back.
The barber instantly recognized Johann (and remembered his name even though it’s been almost three months) and talked to him all through his hair cut. Johann was a pretty good customer, and Tammy and I stayed completely out of it. Johann was rather proud of himself for being able to do it all by himself. I didn’t even help him climb up into the barber chair this time.
Sniff.. he’s growing up..sniff.. ;)
We’ll try and get a picture of him in a few of his sweaters in the next few days, now that it is perfect sweater weather again. I know I still have to post up the picture of his snowman, now that the last bit of it finally has melted away (just a couple of days ago!) Of course I still suspect we will get at least one more snow storm, but after 3–4 days of warm weather the early bulbs have started up their shoots. It’s maybe 2 weeks until the first blooms —assuming no hard freezes before then.