My baby is a big boy!

Perry's hair was getting a little mullet-ish, so I reluctantly took him to get his first haircut last night. I was loving his curls in the back but if it wasn't a humid day than it wasn't super curly and was starting to look too long. The experience did not go well from the start. The second that we sat him in the chair he started screaming. He just would not calm down. I tried his pacifier and a lollipop but he just wasn't having it. His "stylist" was fresh out of cosmetology school. She kept saying what is he saying, why is he crying? All I was thinking is "Are you serious?" We strapped him into a chair at a place that he has never been, with a person that he has never seen before coming at him with scissors and then clippers. I asked her to keep it long because he has a crazy double colic in the back and I liked the longer look since it is curly. He haircut ended up a lot shorter than I wanted but it has grown on me. Last night I was so emotional about it. I wasn't sad at his first birthday but last night after he had his first haircut I ended up balling in the kitchen. Kaden and Emmy asked why I was crying and I told them it was because I didn't like Perry's haircut. The truth was I was sad about my baby growing up. He is such a little boy now! It is a reality every time that I look at him. And although I am sad about him growing up, I am also so excited to see all of the changes in our family. Kaden starts kindergarten next week and Emerson starts preschool the same day. Before I know it Perry will be there too. So instead of being sad about it I am trying to cherish the little moments more. Instead of moving about with all of the things that I have to do each day (which are many w/ 3 kids), I am sitting on the floor to play cars when Perry wants me to, I am drawing Kaden a picture to color when he asks, and I am singing that Raffi song for the tenth time when Emmy asks me to sing with her. Because I am not going to remember that I had a perfectly clean house or that all of my laundry was always done. I want to remember playing with my kids and all of the little moments that are so easily forgotten.