The Parrillo Family

It was just back in January that I took the Big Beef to get his first haircut at the barber shop.   That post and photos are here .  He loved it!  Mostly because of the lollipops and toys and shows! But time marches on and he had been rockin' a lot of salad recently.  So, off we went to get another trim.  Nat sent me with a photo and what you see is the barber's take on that very photo. Here's the before: Here's the during: And...here's the after.  What a cool dude! He aged like 6 years in 15 minutes, didn't he?

It was in early January that I shared photos of the Big Beef getting his first haircut .  He handled it like a pro.  So, this second time, it was easy.  Here above are some photos of Frank settling into the barber chair and getting his hair trimmed up.  We were back last week at the local barber shop in Elmhurst for a Dad-and-Son outing.  I loved it!  I got my haircut, too! Same chair.  Same toys.  Same show on the tv.  And of course, same unlimited lollipops. He did great again!

Back before the holidays on December 20th, I took Frankie to get his FIRST EVER haircut.  And of course, he went with me to the barber shop. Here's a post of Eloise getting her first ever professional haircut at a salon . And here's a post of SD getting her hair cut for the first time ever at the Disney World Magic Kingdom barber shop . And you can see Frankie in this photo above remaining calm and cool.  The unlimited lolli's (as he calls lollipops), the basket of toys next to him, his favorite show of Paw Patrol being up on all the barber shop tv's and the fact that the sole woman barber in the shop was the one doing the cutting might have contributed to his 'chill' attitude. This was an important 'first' for him and for me!  I went to the same barber shop for most of my life - all the way until I moved away from Frankfort.  And it was an important place for me to go with my Dad and Mom (it was right next to the Laundrymat for a while).    Wh...