Preparations for Jayden's Birthday Party

Jayden’s birthday is coming soon. I have been super busy planning the party, making arrangements, putting together menus and researching cake designs. Golly! This is a lot of work. I don’t want things to get out of hand at the last minute so I put together a master to-do list and I’m planning and plotting when I’ll be working on things so that next Sunday, I’m not going nuts to pull it all together.

Since Jayden understands what a birthday is now, I’ve been telling him that his birthday party is coming soon and that mommy is making him a birthday cake. He’s the birthday boy. I tell him that he’s going to be three years old and that he’s a big boy now. Since he’s going to be a big boy now, I tell him that he should use the potty chair now. (I know, shameless plug.) As the day nears, he gets more and more excited. He asks about his birthday everyday. I might regret this later, but I never had birthday parties growing up and I want this to be a special part of his life.

A couple of weeks ago, we went to Party City to pick up supplies and he’s been thrilled ever since. Friday, I was sorting and organizing goodies, supplies and decorations. Jayden was trying to get to his Blue’s Clues piñata so bad. I reminded him that it was for his birthday party and that it was coming soon. Today, I worked on the loot bags and he saw the handy dandy notebooks that I picked up. He wanted them so bad. I can only imagine what’s going to happen tomorrow when I fill the piñata. LOL

In preparation for his birthday party, I decided to take Jayden for a haircut. Now, I’m a pretty fussy lady. I know this. It’s hard to make me happy. For such a young boy, Jayden’s been through a heck of a lot of barbers and hair stylists. I have only once been satisfied with Jayden’s haircut so I set off to take Jayden to the one man who seemed to have a good handle on his hair. Except when I got to the barbershop, he wasn’t there. I couldn’t remember his name and the owner didn’t seem to know who I was talking about so now I have to find a new person.

I decided to take him to a place I’ve been meaning to try called Sports Clips. As you can imagine, it’s all sports themed there and it looks like a pretty cool place. So there we went. We signed in and waited our turn. Jayden ended up with the only male hair stylist in the joint. He tends to be more comfortable with men than with women so I was happy. Except, I forget to tell the guy that I don’t like it when they cut the sideburn straight across. I prefer medium sideburns. And before you know it, not only did he cut it straight across, but he must have cut it crooked because in his attempt to fix it, he cut it well above where a normal sideburn should be.

So of course, I say something. He explains that Jayden moved and he did cut it a tad bit shorter than he would have liked. I leave it alone and I notice that he’s got the clippers and he’s headed back to the other side. “What are you doing? Don’t tell me you’re going to do the same thing to the other side. One side is all screwed up. I don’t want both sides like that. I can’t believe this. It’s a week to his birthday.” This poor guy was so nervous. He got flustered and couldn’t fade Jayden’s hair and had to call one of the other hair dressers to his aid. This poor man disappeared after that. The second lady ended up giving Jayden a decent cut, but wouldn’t accept payment for it. I felt horrible. I really liked how she cut his hair and would have gone back, but I felt so bad for the guy I don’t know if I could. He didn’t want to see me and I felt ashamed. I mean, I didn’t cause a scene or call him names, but I felt so bad. I wanted to apologize and let him know that I didn’t blame him. Things happen. But I couldn’t so I asked the hair dresser to let him know I was sorry about how things turned out and left.