- "Olha mãe vou cortar o cabelo ao Salvador, despede-te dele"
Isto era o que eu andava a dizer a toda a gente, desde finais de Outubro.
Mais um mês, mais uma visita, e o cabelo lá continuava...
Mais um mês, mais uma visita, e o cabelo lá continuava...
- Então, não ias cortar o cabelo ao menino?
- Hummm... Ia, mas... (silêncio).
Parece que o meu desejo de que toda a gente se despedisse dos primeiros caracóis do meu filho não era mais do que o meu próprio receio em dar esse passo...
Eu sei que é só cabelo, eu sei que ele volta a crescer, eu sei que é só o primeiro corte de muitos que certamente se lhe vão seguir. No entanto, um turbilhão de emoções davam à costa sempre que me preparava para o momento que nunca parecia o certo...
Era a emoção da despedida dos cabelinhos do meu bebé - aqueles que acariciei desde o minuto em que lhe peguei ao colo; era o peso de ser uma primeira vez "qualquer coisa"; (eram também recordações dos últimos momentos com o Alexandre... cujos primeiros cabelos serão para mim sempre os únicos)...
A barreira dos 2 anos ajudou a decidir o impasse, o penteado vespertino daquela manhã (100% Einstein - antes da passagem do pente) também!
O nosso menino goza agora, e desde que festejou o seu 2º aniversário, dos benefícios do primeiro corte de cabelo, muito mais leve e com cara de rapazinho todo despachado.
E sabem uma coisa? Afinal não doeu assim tanto.
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- "Mom I'll cut Salvador's hair soon, so it's better that you say goodbye".
That's what I was saying to everyone, since late October.
Another month, another visit, and the hair was still there...
- So, weren't you going to cut Salvador's hair?
- Hmmm... yes, I was, but ... (silence).
It seems that my deep desire for everyone to say goodbye to my son's baby hair was nothing else but my own reluctance to take that step...
I know it's only hair, I know it grows back, I know it's only the first of many haircuts he certainly will get over the years. However, a whirlwind of emotions was happening inside myself anytime I was preparing for the moment, which never seemed right...
It was the emotion of saying goodbye to my baby's first hair - the one that I touched since the first minute I took him in my arms; it was the fact of being a first time "something"; (it was also the memory of our last moments with Alex... whose first hair, will always be, for me, the only one)...
The two years benchmark helped decide the deadlock, his hairstyle on that morning (100% Einstein - before the comb) helped too!
Our boy enjoys now, and since his 2nd birthday celebration, the benefits of his first haircut.
And you know what? It didn't hurt that much after all.
E sabem uma coisa? Afinal não doeu assim tanto.
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- "Mom I'll cut Salvador's hair soon, so it's better that you say goodbye".
That's what I was saying to everyone, since late October.
Another month, another visit, and the hair was still there...
- So, weren't you going to cut Salvador's hair?
- Hmmm... yes, I was, but ... (silence).
It seems that my deep desire for everyone to say goodbye to my son's baby hair was nothing else but my own reluctance to take that step...
I know it's only hair, I know it grows back, I know it's only the first of many haircuts he certainly will get over the years. However, a whirlwind of emotions was happening inside myself anytime I was preparing for the moment, which never seemed right...
It was the emotion of saying goodbye to my baby's first hair - the one that I touched since the first minute I took him in my arms; it was the fact of being a first time "something"; (it was also the memory of our last moments with Alex... whose first hair, will always be, for me, the only one)...
The two years benchmark helped decide the deadlock, his hairstyle on that morning (100% Einstein - before the comb) helped too!
Our boy enjoys now, and since his 2nd birthday celebration, the benefits of his first haircut.
And you know what? It didn't hurt that much after all.
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