Next Month, A $400 Haircut

Today I gave Milo a haircut in front of the floor length mirror in the boys' bathroom, instead of in the middle of our kitchen as I usually do (where there are no mirrors). As always, I trim around Milo's head, evening things out and then I add some layers to give his hair some body. I'd just about finished evening things out and was about to start the layers stage when Milo, watching in the mirror, says, "I'm not happy about this haircut, I look like Wolfgang." Okay. For those of you who don't know Wolfgang, he is a boy in Milo's class, who has a blond "bowl" cut. I reminded Milo that I still had to add the layers and his hair wouldn't look like Wolfgang's afterwards. He seemed relieved. I, however, had no idea Milo had such stylistic preferences. And now, I'm imagining the day that a haircut by Mommy won't be good enough.