A Day at the Salon - Alex Style

On Saturday, Skip convinced me that Alexander's hair was no longer tolerable as it was approaching the look of a "late-80s Billy Ray Cyrus mullet." We booked him an appointment at Sharkey's Cuts for Kids in Villanova, theorizing that if he would enjoy his first haircut anywhere, this would be the place.

DVD with Little Einstein's video playing - check.
Crazy chair shaped like a fighter jet, complete with steering wheel and many buttons to push - check.
Video camera mounted to top of stylist station to document the event in color, with sound - check.

Boy was still completely freaked.

All in all, it wasn't a completely terrible day. The stylist only nearly nicked Alex's ear at one particularly tense moment. Just for reference, you would think that at a place called Sharkey's Cuts for Kids, stylists would be trained not to say things like, "geez - I nearly got him on that one," but there you go. Anyway...