It's a BABY!!!

This morning, I had an early hair appointment for a trim. I dropped Caroline off at preschool and hurried over to the salon. While walking in the door Roy Austin started to get a little fussy and I just hoped that he would make it through the appointment without me having to take him out of his seat. Well, when I walked in, I was the first client there and all the stylist were sitting around talking with the receptionist. When they saw that I was carrying a baby carseat, it was like ants at a picnic. They all swarmed around me and made cute baby talk to Roy Austin. I smiled, answered their questions and comments (yes, he does have a lot of hair---I'm getting tired of that one--and, his name is Roy Austin. Not Roy, not Austin. It's a double name and a family name). I went to sit down and tell my stylist what I wanted, placing the carseat on the floor in front of me. This is where I got annoyed.

Okay, first of all, I do love babies. I think they're adorable, sweet, innocent and peaceful. Nothing is sweeter than a newborn baby, BUT I don't go crazy when I see one! I don't have to hold it or stand around the mother awkwardly until she offers me the opportunity to hold her prized possession. The only babies that I demand to hold are my neices and nephews because they are blood and because I am their Auntie..oh yeah, and because I don't care what my sisters think:) Now as far as my babies go, I don't care if people I know want to hold them or want to tickle their cheeks. It's the crazy strangers that get to me. Kind of like the ladies I encountered today.

So, I place Roy Austin down on the floor and go to get my hair washed. While my head's under the water, I hear his cry and then I hear someone attending to his pacifier. As I make my way back to the chair, the "helper" informs me that if I tickle his cheek, he'll open his mouth and suck the pacifier instantly. Wow. Thanks, genius. I never thought of that. Then she informs me that all babies do that. So, now Roy Boy is fussy and a little annoyed. The pacifier girl squats down next to him, rocking his seat and talking to him, while he's getting more fussy. Finally she leaves just in time for others to stop by. Some of them stand awkwardly with their arms folded, looking at him. I can tell they would explode with happiness if I offered to let them hold Roy Boy, but I don't! One of the "watchers" I can see in the mirror and she is starring at him with her hands over her mouth in shock like she's never seen a baby before. She stays in this position for about 2 minutes or so before wandering off. Off an on, he gets more fussy, cries a little and then stops. A lady runs back to the booth I'm sitting in and says "I thought I heard a baby back here!" (she was a client from the waiting room, by the way). My pacifier teacher comes back to see that Roy Austin has dozed off so what does she do? She squats down again and shoves his pacifier back in his mouth, waking him and making him cry! The whole time I'm thinking, "LEAVE THE BABY ALONE!!!!!!!!". The icing on the cake was one elderly lady who was getting her hair done. She passed Roy Austin on her way to get her hair washed and on her way back to the chair, she stopped and rocked his seat (what is it with people just deciding to rock a baby's car seat?!) and then just squatted there looking at him for about 3 minutes. This whole time, I'm smiling politely and agreeing that "he had a lot of hair for a baby", but you can guess what I'm thinking.

Luckily the appointment was a quick one and I was out the door with a bunch of ladies waving and making cute little baby faces at my sweet boy. I wish I had my camera with me so I could have taken some shots of the fans---especially the one who had never seen a baby before.