to cut or not to cut

I've considered cutting off Ty's mohawk after I looked at the picture of him in the bumbo chair and his mohawk blends into the background. Hmmm. He may be just a little cuter without it. I've even discussed this with a few people, but it somehow doesn't seem right to cut my tiny little infant's hair. So I did a little photoshopping so we could take a closer look at what he would look like.

Mohawk Ty

Bald Ty

(obviously my photoshop skills are less than perfect, but I think you get the gist of it)

As you can see, he looks a little less like a Native American (is that the politically correct term these days? So sorry if it isn't and I just offended someone and not that Native American's aren't cute, it's just that he isn't one). But really, every time I see pictures of him with the mohawk, I have this urge to strap a feathered headband to his head. I know it's just hair, but the lack of mohawk just seems SO NOT HIM.

It made me think about if I removed my, um...uh....mole. (I feel really weird calling it a mole. I've always called it a birth mark my entire life and when I do, people look at me like I'm an idiot for calling my mole a birthmark- somehow it's just seems more natural and like I couldn't control it in any way- you know, because I was born with it,as if you can control whether you have a mole either. I'm done trying to explain myself since it's obviously not working). Anyway. Here's me.

And here's me without the....mole.

kinda crazy, isn't it? It's just not me, right? Or is it.... I guess you could say that about nearly anything. I've been begging Cameron to agree to let me get braces. (Thanks to the blurriness of this picture, you can't really tell that I have crooked teeth. While I recognize that they could be much, much worse, I do have a few snaggle teeth, mostly on the bottom that I've always been very self conscious of and I promise I'm not trying to fish for compliments). He has finally agreed (upon certain conditions), but maybe I wouldn't be me with really straight teeth...

What do you think? Should I cut Ty's hair? Would it change who his little self is or am I over thinking this? I'm really not that worried about it, I'm just curious. And on a less superficial level, do you think things oughta be left the way they are to preserve our true selves? What's the difference between braces and a chest enhancement (I didn't use the obvious term for fear this blog would come up on somebody's search)? Where do we draw the line or is there a line at all? Do we try to "fix" our kids? What would you do if your child had a really bad nose? Would you support a nose job? I learned in graduate school that it is a really easy and painless procedure to pin back a kid's ears that really stick out and when I learned that, I always thought I'd let my kid do that if they wanted to. Well guess what. I have a kid with ears that really poke out. But, again, it's him. But then again, the thought of him getting teased about it breaks my heart. I know there are a million things we'd all change about ourselves but what's okay to change, and what's not?

Your thoughts?

I think I could ramble on about this forever.