a haircut & a dedication

I had visions of Tucker's curly hair growing down to his shoulders like Max on Parenthood, who I think is adorable. But the reality of long curly hair on a child is frizzzzzy in the morning and sweaty mess in the afternoon. After several talks of how to care for his hair by investing in a spray bottle to reduce the friz we decided to take advantage of the ease of boyhood. With that, the time had officially come to have Tucker's first haircut! Of course, we had to have Grandpa the Barber to take care of his precious locks. With a snack in hand Tucker let Grandpa zip around him with lightning speed to get the job done. Before the chop his hair was 5 inches long! That's 1/2 an inch per month, at this rate we will have to come home for haircuts every other month!

The next day we finally had Tucker's baby dedication at Faith Free. On that special Sunday morning we declared that it was our intention to present our child to the Lord and to pledge ourselves to bringing him up in the nurture and counsel of the Lord. We answered the following questions with "we do".
Do you recognize your child as a gift of God, and give heartfelt thanks for God's blessing?
Do you dedicate your child to the Lord who gave him?
Do you pledge as parents that you will bring up this child in the nurture and counsel of the Lord?
Do you promise to give this child every possible benefit of the home and of the church?
Do you ask God's blessings upon your child's life, to guide, guard and direct them through all their years?
We know that only he can personally put his trust and faith in Jesus so we wanted to commit ourselves to God in diligently nurturing him with total trust and faith in our living and loving father. It was a wonderful day spent with family.