March madness

'Definition of insanity is to keep doing same thing and expect different results'...this was written by the mother of a six-month old baby in her post on contentedbaby.com and it feels very fitting at the moment.
I am now a complete addict of this site, watching all the relevant strings in the vain hope that I might find an answer to the baby's sleeping problems...he was up 6 times again last night between 7.20pm and 3.30am when he eventually slept until 7.10am...when I went and woke HIM to get my own back...only joking...to keep him in his routine on the off-chance that it might mean he'll sleep tonight...I won't hold my breath!

My toddler has taken to wearing his beanie hat anytime he leaves the house and refused to take it off for the 3 days that he was at nursery this week. He has the most fantastic thick curly hair, which we have variously grown and had cropped to a number 2 as the mood has taken us. This used to be done at Daisy and Tom in Manchester, but since the shop (and hairdresser) closed down at the end of January, we have struggled to find an alternative. I tried my hairdresser once last year and he had such a major tantrum that I very nearly took him home with only half a haircut (kind of like a mohican, but on one side of his head)...so I'm not keen to go back. He seems to be cool with kids hairdressers (must be the chair-straps!) and was always great at D&T, so somebody recommended I try Little Bigheads in Wilmsow...all fine until she told me the price...£14.95...for a 2 year-old! Its not so much that it's expensive, but it lasts 2 minutes and wasn't even that great a haircut.
So I decided that we would do it ourselves...after all my partner cuts his own hair and has numerous sets of clippers so how hard can it be. Sunday morning, I am cooking chicken casserole (the baby's first 'real' meal - to be pureed of course) and my partner sets about the haircut. He does a number 3 first...not short enough...so he does a number 2...perfect, just needs a bit of tidying around the edges...we can do that with a pair of scissors...or we could try using a number 1 cutter to do it...oops, a bit lopsided at the front...double oops, a few extra chunks out of the back...either we do a number 1 all over or live with the slight imperfections
Hence the hat...even 2 year-olds know when they're having a bad hair day!