Not as feral

As much as Lyla's raised-by-wolves hairstyle is a great conversation piece at the zoo, you still want people to think she's a visitor rather than an exhibit.

So today we took her in for her first haircut.




No, we did not keep a lock of her hair for the scrapbook or whatever. "Look honey, your first fingernail! And here's your first newborn bowel movement, black as tar." Don't say hair is different; hair is hair.

The secret to Lyla's good behavior was the promise of candy.

"You get a treat."

"Teat!"

"Trrreat."

"Teat!"




Now Lyla doesn't look as feral, although she's refusing to stay in bed as I type this. The haircut seems to have had an inverse behavioral impact.