Playing Barbie...On the Baby?

What ever made me and my mother think we could cut hair is beyond me. But due to the hurricane and our husbands being away... I guess we got a little stir crazy, so it only made sense at the time to play barbie on my sweet, unassuming 9 month old boy. Apparently, cutting bad hair is actually in the gene pool. I really should have remembered how my hair looked growing up..that straight across the face bang look, it didn't work on me and it doesn't work on my son. We grabbed his cute, blond bangs and formed a V shape with them (this what her student told her was the proper way to cut bangs). Mother brushed and...WHAM! one swoop with the scissors and his glorious blond hair was chopped to so high he looked like an Amish man. This birthed Jebediah, my Amish son. His bangs were cut straight across, generally speaking... A few strands were way shorter than the rest. The only logical thing to do at this point was to continue cutting. Mom brushed and went to cut the hair that was too long by his ear. Dear Lord, she cut way too high up!! Now Jebediah looked liked the cast away Amish man! Mother!! I screamed while laughing at my happy baby. You said you knew how to cut hair!!
I never said that! she said calmly... The why did are you cutting it?! I replied...ummm not so calmly. I managed to successfully snip the other side of his hair by his ear; so he is now lopsided. Now he is only lopsided with WAY toooo short bangs and a high cut by his ear. On the bright side, he still HAD his ear! Even my oldest was looking at us like wow, what did y'all do to my brother?? I suppose the moral to this story is that if you had to tape your barbies hair back on when you were little... You probably shouldn't go near a head of hair. Yes, I KNOW we all secretly want to play beauty shop when we are older, but we have to remember that not only is this a life we are charged with caring for... we have to go out in public with this child as well.  Luckily we learned our lesson and no major scars were formed. Next time, we will take him to a professional.