Zach is sporting a little somethin’ somethin’ we’ll call “The Bullet” – The Baby Mullet. Since day one he has lacked a full head of hair. In utero, we were told “Wow! This baby’s got tons of hair!” Fancy ultrasounds (and plenty of them) confirmed that Zachary would arrive with a flowing main. Wrong. Totally wrong. We’re still not sure what the doctors were seeing, but it wasn’t a full head of hair.

For a while we called it the “monk look.” He was baldish on top – well, had a receding hairline, really – and then had more hair ringed along the back and sides. My Mom had her heart set on a true “Jenny-Junior;” when his hair finally came in, it would be thick, dark and curly. Sorry, Grandma. We’re still not sure what color his hair is – at times it looks like he’s going blond and then in some lights it looks like it will be brown like Matthew’s.

Speaking of Matthew: as an infant he had what we call “The Faux-Hawk” – The Fake Mohawk. He pretty much had the opposite of Zach – lots of hair down the middle but not much around the sides or back. To this day, he tends to have a lot more thick hair that grows in a strip on the top of his noggin. If he weren’t so terrified of getting his hair cut, I’d attempt to make the most of this natural tendency – maybe shave the rest and go for a full-on Mohawk. I’m sure that would go over well with the grandparents!

So, yes, Zachary is really embracing his Bullet – all business up front and a party in the back. His hair is getting long enough along the back and sides, that I can actually push it up and it does curl a little (this helps with lessoning the Bullet effect). But, like with Matthew, perhaps we should just accept Zach’s style. We need to embrace his‘80’s-themed hair growth and dress him in baby stonewashed jeans or perhaps Hammer parachute pants, a Hawaiian shirt and jean jacket would really pull the look together for him. The ‘80’s are back, baby! And our baby is ‘80’s!