Sunday, January 15, 2012

Shower Caps


This is the back of Oliver's sweet neck. He got a haircut yesterday at the salon where I go. He grinned the entire time and asked Andie to put gel in his hair and make it spiky. Last night, when I insisted he take a shower, he asked whether he could put on a plastic shower cap so that the spikes would stay. I told him that we didn't have any shower caps and then he reminded me that I had bought these weird plastic covers for leftovers and that I called them shower caps. So he went to the kitchen and put on this "shower cap," all the time chattering about it and laughing and asking me to look at him and then he got into the shower and since our house is so small, I could hear the water hitting the shower cap and splattering off of it and this went on for quite some time until he got out of the shower and came into my bedroom with a towel wrapped around him and the shower cap still on his head. He took it off carefully and felt his hair even more carefully and then exclaimed Cool! It's still dry, Mom! And he was still smiling and so light and buoyant I believe he might have sailed up and out of the room or even the back door and into the night.

17 comments:

  1. Oh Oliver! How we love you!
    One Christmas my mother gave me a pack of those "shower cap" leftover covers. That was my gift.

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  2. I'd like it if you just gave me Oliver. = )

    Best,
    Bonnie

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  3. Love, love, love this boy + shower cap story. Thank you for writing it. Now we all have it to hold onto and smile about as the day goes by.

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  4. What an original breath of fresh air, humor and delight he is. Thanking God for the gift of your children!

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  5. Now that is the way all kids should feel. No worries except to make sure the spikes don't go away.

    Sweet.

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  6. We have the same desires here, though it never spikes as good as when the professional does it. Love this little slice of life... so beautiful!

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  7. I love the detail of the sound of the water hitting the shower cap. And I hope the spikes survived the night's sleep somewhat.

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  8. This is pure joy. Oh Oliver. What a delightful peek into your day. What a lovely boy!

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  9. A physics experiment of the highest degree :)

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  10. I love this! Oliver sounds like such a fabulous, joyful kid. And writing-wise, I really love the rhythm and the pace of this--it gives me such a nice sense of his joy and bounce and movement.

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  11. love this.
    he's such a smart boy.

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