Hair! Flow it, Show it

I have boys. I've never had to deal with ribbons or ponytails or tangles or anything girlie having to do with hair. When to cut Mason's hair for the first time was quite a topic of discussion (since he didn't have any for a long while), but still, not a big hair issue. Then we had Miles Avery and from the moment he arrived, he has been a hair issue (don't put that hat on him, it covers up his hair; did you wash his hair, it doesn't smell freshly washed). And now Miles Avery's hair issues aren't just mine & Mitch's anymore - they are his own - I think his vision is about to be impaired - not to mention the constant look of dirty hair that plagues him because he immediately puts his hands into his hair (hands usually covered with food and/or saliva). I love his hair - it makes him, him. But the dreaded When are you going to cut his hair? questions have begun (Mitch on the forefront of those questions). People always assume he's much older than he is (10 months) due to his grown-man-looking head of hair. But when he's fresh out of the tub and we've just brushed his damp hair and it's so clean and shiny and soft - wait, that only lasts until we get him off the changing table, then it's hand-in-mouth, hand in hair, crusty, dirty hair returns.

Gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair

Shining, gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there, hair!

Shoulder length, longer (hair!)

Here baby, there mama, Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair! (hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair) Flow it, Show it;

Long as God can grow it, My Hair!

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy

Shaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty

Oily, greasy, fleecy, shining

Gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen

Knotted, polka-dotted; Twisted, beaded, braided

Powdered, flowered, and confettied

Bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied!