the real deal

Make note, February 8th and 9th, 2010, will go down in Langford history as the "mohawk days". Years from now we will be sitting around with Carter's son, telling him the story of the mohawk...one cold February night we were all hanging out and Carter announced he was done with his long hair and wanted his dad to buzz it again. Mom said he shouldn't waste the long hair and suggested he first buzz the sides and have a great mohawk for a day. Just a few days prior Carter had some fun with his long hair on "funky hair day". Carter just laughed at the idea...at first. As the discussion continued we talked him into having it buzzed Monday after school and wear it to Grammy's birthday celebration that night-just to show the family-surprise them all. He liked the idea. Then mom opened her big mouth and said she would give him $20 dollars to wear it to school on Tuesday, assuming he would never do it as we had just talked him into the Monday night. He immediately said he would do it for $50. Mom said no way and he said he would think about it for $20. Dad gave mom a "what are you doing, you should have said $5" look. A few days later Carter said he would do it for $20. And by time the day came he was actually looking forward to it. So, first Monday night. We walk into Grammy/Grandpa's house and Grandpa greets us at the door. He sees Carter and just shakes his head in disappointment. Later he admitted that he had flash backs of when Joel grew his hair over his eyes. The cousins saw him and some laughed, some said cool, and some just stared. Like Josh, who couldn't keep his eyes off Carter. We finally asked him what was wrong and he just crinkled up his nose and pointed at Carter. Lydia on the other hand, told Carter she liked his haircut. The next day at school Carter was the star. The teachers said little but the kids thought he was the coolest and couldn't stop touching his hair. He admitted to enjoying the attention. We stopped by Mimi's work to shock her. She laughed and said, "oh my" a lot.

PS, Carter hasn't asked for the money yet.

Grandpa's feelings about Carter's hair