Max had his first public meltdown yesterday, and thankfully Daddy and the hairdresser were quick on their feet, as it only lasted a minute at most.

The background: Dusty has been cutting Max's hair and it's cute, Max tends to cooperate, and it's free. (Big bonus!) Lately though he's been losing his patience faster and Dusty isn't able to buzz his head enough to get rid of most of those scraggly long hairs. The result leaves all sorts of random long hairs sticking out from Max's head and it was driving me CRAZY. (Yes, I totally realize this is my problem but we all know that Mom wins on the crazy arguments.) So last night we all loaded up and took Max to get his hair cut by a "lady", as he so calls her.

The meltdown: After numerous conversations in the car where Max told us "Daddy cut my hair, Lady cut my hair, Mama no cut my hair", we arrived. Lady, we're just going to refer to her as that as I never got her name and that is what Max insisted on calling her, went to get Max a sucker so he could suck on it while she cut his hair. As she came around the corner she grabbed at the sucker and Max said "No take off wrapper". But since Lady wasn't fluent in Max's speak she continued to remove the wrapper as he said this. Max stopped with big sad eyes, said "Don't take off wrapper" and then flung himself down onto the wet, hair spotted floor where he proceeded to cover his face and cry. While he was down Lady quick stuck the wrapper back on the sucker and Dusty was able to convince Max to look at the "new" sucker that Lady got for him with the wrapper on.

The best part: Max gets up, takes his arm and wipes his face, grabs the sucker, says "Thank you" and proceeds to follow Dusty over to the chair as if nothing had happened. Seriously people? For our first public meltdown I couldn't have asked for it to go better!

The adorable pictures of Max's first haircut in a salon:

I don't think we'll be doing this again anytime soon. Max did amazing and sat still for the whole ordeal but Daddy's haircuts are free and conveniently at our home so we'll try using scissors after the buzz and hopefully cut down on the number of long random hairs. And we at least got a new tool, the sucker, to help bribe our child to sit patiently!

Oh, and because I'm sure you're curious, Rory played with the toys, walked all over the salon, and grabbed every bottle of hair product within her reach. I was exhausted chasing her around!