Bad haircut

Coming off of my successful trip to Sam's Club, I decided to venture out again this past weekend.  Little Tony was desperately in need of a haircut  (I was almost afraid that people would think I have three girls because his hair was getting so long) so I decided to walk them over to one of the local salons that I had a gift certificate for.  My plan was to push back lunch and their nap so they'd be pretty tired.  That way the girls would be calm and be ok with sitting in the stroller and little T would be calm and be as good as he's been for every other hair cut that he's gotten.
Well, part of my plan worked...
The part where the girls were nice and quiet and calm worked out really well.  Olivia actually fell asleep and Amelia was really quiet too.  Little Tony on the other hand - well I guess he decided today would be the time to give the hair dresser a difficult time.
I was greeted by the staff with such gusto when I first arrived - the owner of the salon actually handed each of them a brand new board book (to keep!)  I was then introduced to the hair dresser - whose name is escaping me, but I had seen her there before.  She was a little older and I noticed right away that she was a little nervous.  Tony started out pretty well, but after a few minutes, he started moving his head which would obviously make it difficult to cut and cut straight.  She explained that she didn't plan on cutting straight across his bangs because she'd have a tough time getting a straight line across.  As the minutes went on, it just got worse and she kept jerking away her hand/scissors every time he made any amount of movement - whether she was close to him or not.  At one point I actually asked her if there were many young children that come into the salon and she said no, and especially for her as "she's afraid of cutting young kids' hair "  OK WHAT?!?!?!?  I understand this was a Sunday afternoon and there were only a few people working, but why the hell would the owner have put me with her? I would have waited for someone else who wasn't scared of kids!
From there, the rest of my visit just got worse.  At one point the stylist just called it quits and said that she couldn't do any more "if he continues to keep moving around" to which I agreed even though his hair was completely uneven!  (From a short distance it doesn't look too bad, but up close, it's a total mess.)  I went up front to pay and pull out my gift certificate and ask if I can use it which sparked an unproductive conversation about how they had not issued the g.c. ... let me explain...
Every month in the New Jersey Shopping & Dining Guide, they include a few ballots for some prizes like gift certificates for local businesses, etc.  I've actually won a few times and never ran into a problem with using the g.c. elsewhere.  So, I had won this g.c. from NJ Shopping & Dining Guide and unfortunately I had cut the certificate part away from the rest of the paper which I think had some additional directions to the business owner about how to redeem the certificate.  But these owners did not seem to care and kept repeating that what I had, was not one of their g.c. and they had not advertised in the NJ S&D Guide for several months and had NOT authorized any g.c to be offered as part of a promotion, etc.  So in the end, I was not able to use the g.c, which was unfortunate, but not the end of the world.  What put me off was the way the owner and her husband (who was there) chose to deal with me and my 'phony gift certificate'.  They weren't nasty, but not necessarily friendly either and almost tried to confiscate the g.c.!  Unfortunately I will not be going back to VIP salon in Jamesburg. Too many strikes in my book.  I know this may seem like a rash decision, but there's a bit more history and it's too late to get into that...

sleepy T

here's a picture of little T's shaggy hair from the side and front...

Tony is actually pointing out a very teeny spider that was on the floor

and some from afterwards...

playing with water at the bathroom sink on the bench my dad made them...which they do ALOT.