Sticky Tack Drama
Have you ever had one of those days where you come home so exhausted that you’re just done. Well I’m well done. Someone take me off the grill. I spent all day listening to presentations given to teenagers on making good decisions.
At home I was greeted by a little boy who had this in the front of his hair.
For the record Ethan, this was not a good decision.
Somehow during nap time the blue sticky tack fell off the wall and into his hair! Can you believe that? We tried to comb it out, wash it out, grease it up with butter, everything…then two rather tired, frazzled parents just cut it out. (Ok, I did the cutting while Nate was downstairs doing laundry.) After a little scissor action it was apparent that we would have to shave his head.
Thus began the five year old drama - “I don’t want to be bald! Don’t cut all my hair off it won’t grow back! You’re trying to kill me!”
After the buzz he reached up and felt his head and said, “I feel like dad.” Yes son, he did contribute some sperm to your genetic make-up. You may have hair like him, but you got the drama from your mama!
You kill me.
OH. MY.
And I’m rather curious as to why you spent an entire day listening to teenagers make said presentations… do you think they’ll take their own advice?
Lol. The things we do. Betcha when you were pregnant with him you NEVER thught about doing this!
not sure this will work, but heard it takes gum out of hair etc… try an oily product such as Avon skin so soft bath oil (baby oil???).
Krista - I work as a program coordinator in our local schools and we have a guest speaker in all week. My job is taking him to each of the schools and he’s been giving presentations to teens. Mostly on self-respect, making good decisions, being a good role model, bullying, etc… He’s a very good speaker, but I’ll be hearing the EXACT same presentation about 9 times this week
bluemoon - Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely try that next time!!!
I am sooooo sorry you have to listen to the ‘teen speech’ all week. That will get rather boring; if not already.
I thank you for the chuckle. I have been there and done that. Not with sticky tack, but gum. While the ice and peanut butter may work, sometimes it is just easier to cut it out. Do you know how hard peanut butter is to wash out of hair, or how about sitting there for hours pulling out frozen gum? Ugh, it takes to darn long and I am too lazy.
You just reminded me of a hair cutting incident in my family I will have to write about!
Oh man….the consequences bad decisions with blue sticky tacky stuff. This reminds me of “NO GOOD, TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, VERY BAD DAY” It’s starts off when the little boy goes to bed with gum in his mouth and wakes up with gum in his hair. It was a favorite book of mine growing up - i think it would be a good read for Ethan too!
Hope your day is better today.
Sometimes, just when your sure you can’t deal with anything more…there it is..and darn you have to do it.
Glad you made it threw the trauma and i hope his hair grows back quickly.
Hope you can relax later…
My best..Dorothy from grammology
remember to call your gram
LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my. How is it that you capture these life moments in such a good writing style??
Too cute!!!
he still looks adorable.
Bald is beautiful!! I’ve always had good luck on gum with hair spray. Owning apts it comes in handy cleaning ‘rug gum’ left behind as folks move on. WD-40 and ‘Bartender’s Helper’ work great on some things as well. And putting coffee grounds (cheap stuff) on animal urine clean-up spots will draw out residue and kill the odor. Rub in, leave a few days, vacuum, re-do as necessary. Only really effective stuff we’ve found for it:)
Oh the drama!
Not that I would be familiar with kid drama. *snort*
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