A hairy issue.

check out my cool bird that I can barely see through my hair


If you've ever seen any photos of my little man you've probably noticed his hair. My W has long, luscious hair (for an 18 month old at least) and has never ever in his life had a haircut. Me and J toy with the idea of getting his mane shaped up a bit sometimes but we always decide against the scissors. Why you may ask... well there are many reasons.

1) I like the fact that you can still see the slight change in colour at the tips of his hair that was the black hair he was born with and I can't bear to cut it off.

2) He looks awesome and supercute in his long hair

3) We always said that if we had a little boy we would keep his hair long at first cause it's cute and we really don't like the short "boy haircuts" all the other little boys are sporting.

Hanging out on the toilet with my hair in half a ponytail



On the other hand there are some arguments against our decision too...

1) I can't remember all the times people have called him a girl and looked shocked to find out he's a boy.

2) It's in his eyes all the time and he has now made a habit of running his arms over his face to try to get rid of the hair.

3) I have to resort to putting his hair up with bobby pins and hair ties so he can eat.

with daddy and all my hair in the ponytail



Maybe we're making the wrong decision with keeping his hair long... but did I mention he's sooooo very cute with his long locks!

My mom said to me today that she hopes I don't take him out with his hair in a ponytail. I told her of course not, it's only for at home so he can be more comfortable. Does this mean that as soon as we leave the house my son has to be uncomfortable just because I can't bear cutting of his hair that he was born with?

on the toilet again so cute. guess the red shirt doesn't help the "I'm a boy" cause


Maybe I am a selfish and superficial mom after all... who knew.

I threw in a photo of W dressed like an otter too because he was tooooo cute at the Biodome. Even though I swear never to go there again during school holidays we had a pretty good time. Especially at the interactive part at the end for kids under 7 where you could dress up as said otter or beaver or Inuit.

Look at me! I'm an otter and I caught two birds!!

biodome

Me and Wilhelm went to the Biodome today. The Biodome is a nature museum which has 4 different ecosystems with real animals roaming the different parts. There is the Tropical forest with the big parrots, the ibis birds and all the other kinds I can't remember and the cool fishes and bats and the cute tiny monkeys they have three kinds black & white, black and golden ones.
Laurentian Forrest with otters (they were both out and playing today and they were super cute), a beaver, porcupines and birds.
St Lawrence Marine has two different sections
- The huge aquarium with huge fish and swimming birds and a shark and stuff.
- The top of the aquarium with the birds and the starfish and the giant 8 kg lobster.
The Arctic with the puffin birds and other birds.
The Antarctic with the penguins.

I could spend all day looking at the penguins and the big aquarium and Wilh really used to like it but not today. He ran around like a mad person and refused to sit still and enjoy the animals. I think his favorite part today was the big green parrots in the tropic and the two cute otters in the Laurentians.

All in all a good outing though.
Tomorrow is mine and hubby's 4th wedding anniversary so I'll be posting some photos.

Are there any other places around that I should check out that I don't know about. I have a lot of time to do interesting things with Wilh these days.