Wickenkamp Grand Adventures: Having a Bad Hair Day

You can always tell what sport Joel is in by the length of his hair. For soccer he has longer wild curly hair. For wrestling he gets it all cut off (I love wrestling!) to a shorter haircut. Kayla has usually been the one to trim his locks. She has a knack for it so we let her. Normally he turns out pretty good. We're not sure what went awry this time. Well, ok, we have an idea where the wrong turn was.

Joel's hair is very thick and wirey and somewhat unruly. Kayla begins with scissors and then trims up his neck with Jim's beard trimmer. THIS time though, she cut some off of the top but it was still kind of long. Then she started on the back. She cut first with the scissors and then she decided to grab the beard trimmer and kind of...well, we're not sure.

She kind of sporadically chopped at it. Now the chopped look is somewhat in style so it wasn't too bad at this point. The beard trimmer was giving her problems by clogging up (see reference to thick wirey hair). So she solved that problem by taking the guard off. Well when she started in again it just took him to the scalp in a spot. Hmmm. that didn't work. She thought she'd better make it even on the other side so proceded to create another bald spot. (now I know somewhere in here my parents will insert a "I remember a time when you did a similar thing to yourself" That's another story for maybe another time.) Back to the THIS story. Somewhere in the process the back hairline was extended up almost even with the bottom of his ears.

Did I mention that all of this is going on around 10:30 at night when there's no one to call for help? Jim and I needed to go to Wal-Mart for our weekly get out of the house date so while we were there I picked up a hair cutting kit for about the price of a haircut. Kayla was tired and went to bed so I proceeded to take a whack. I took the top and sides down to a half inch, but I was too scared to touch the back. It was Jim's turn. You have to know that through this entire thing we were all laughing so hard (even Joel).

Now Joel is a good sport through this entire process. He even took pictures for you. When he retold the story at school (which with one look at him you knew there was a story there somewhere), he protected his sister and didn't make her look bad in front of his friends. I know because they told me.

Here are some pictures. The one with all the hair was taken a while ago, but it'll give you some idea of what he started with.

We're hoping for a little growth before we do senior pictures!