Boys Will Be Boys?

My kids seem to be drawn to the clippers. I put them away and they climb great heights to reach them! It would be one thing if it had just happened once. Sounds reasonable that each kid goes through the event of cutting their own hair. But my kids have done this on multiple occasions. When Spencer was three I made the mistake of leaving the clippers out after I finished cutting their hair. I came upstairs to see a very funny looking child. We shaved it all off and if course it grew back...eventually. I cut his hair again, this time being sure to put them away...high so he couldn't reach them. Silly mommy! Boys climb. Boy, do they climb! He climbed to the ceiling (in our linen closet) and repeated the whole process. Ugh!!

Now, Davis is three. He took two big wacks out of the front of his hair a few months ago. I didn't want to cut it all that short so I waited for it to grow out a bit and then cut it so he didn't look like he had a buzz. As I was getting them all out of the shower I asked him to just run down and grab me the baby's bottle. I heard a "BZZZZZZZ..." and screamed, "Davis turn those off right now!!!" Too late. Damage was done. Is this where someone tells me boys will be boys? Now, while Spencer delighted in me having to shave his head bald, Davis was downright broken hearted. He sobbed and sobbed, and repeatedly said, "Now I look like a man!" I'm not sure what that meant, but I do know it meant something awful. He was very worried that Spencer would tell him he looked like a man too, so after he was in bed asleep and his brothers got home from being out with Daddy I gave them all the pep talk of how "we don't make fun of your brother, he is very upset, make him feel better, blah, blah, blah". They snuck upstairs to peek at him and they both came down sobbing!! "He doesn't look like our brother! He will never look like our brother again. I don't like to look at him!" were just some of the sweet words they said. Jeez! And they say that girls are the ones full of drama!! Later, when I went in to do my nightly check- in, I found that Spenc and Isaac had surrounded Davis in all sorts of "gifts" (zoom in close and you will even see an infamous sock puppet!). They must have really felt bad for him!!