Spiky Dinosaur Hair

The other day I realized Ayden was well overdue for a haircut.  This kid's hair is thick and grows super fast, but because he is particular about where he gets his hair cut it wasn't until recently that it fit into our schedule.  Ayden loves to go to places that will cut his hair while he sits in a Lightning McQueen race car and watches Paw Patrol.

I took the leap and told the gal to give him a back to school cut.  I wanted his hair short because quite frankly I didn't want to come back for at least a month because at almost $18 a cut getting his haircut can be quite expensive, especially when he could literally go every other week!  Seriously I was embarrassed on how long the kids hair was after she began shaving and cutting the hair.  This child had at least one wig full of hair for a grown man.  As the gal finished up she asked Ayden if he wanted gel put in his hair.  Honestly he just agreed because he didn't want anyone to interrupt his Paw Patrol show.  She was styling his hair with some spikes and she said she was giving him dinosaur spiky hair.  He grinned from ear to ear.  At that moment I thought it was because he was happy with is cut and style.  Little did I know that that smile was that of a connection where he thought he could be a dinosaur.  Oh the struggles over here.

For the remainder of the day Ayden growled, stomped, scratched, attacked, and unfortunately to me bit like a dinosaur.  The kid literally went insane.  I don't know what got into him, except maybe the gel leaked into his brain and caused him to be a dinosaur, but I was literally exhausted once my little dinosaur went to bed.

The next day his hair was flat and the dinosaur no longer existed, however his hair was super cute the way it was styled I thought I would like to continue the style, just minus using the words he looked like a dinosaur.  We were at Target and I was going to grab some gel, when Ayden informed me that I should not buy the gel.  I asked why and he informed me because he didn't know if we all could handle him being a dinosaur any more since he got into so much trouble the other day.  Sigh...yes this came out of the threenager's mouth and I realized I was not going to buy gel.  I guess this is one way to save money on hair products, just don't buy it. However I am wondering if I should find out the type of gel that was used the other day so I can contact the company to let them know they need to pt a warning label on it stating it may turn small children into dinosaurs?