Mundun

It is in the Vedic tradition to perform a Mundun ceremony before a child turns one or three. It is a beautiful ceremony where the child's hair is cut to symbolize the shedding of the burdens of past lives.  A lock of hair is cut by the father at the end of the ceremony, but it is your choice to take it further.  We decided to stick with the lock for Izzie since she has great hair.  Since Max and Sonya were still a little peach fuzzy we took it all the way with them :)

Start with blowing the conch shell

Whole family during the ceremony.

Adam cutting Izzie's hair,

and Sonya's, 

and finally Max's.

Max didn't care for this part, but he let us do it.

Here he is looking like the Buddha.

This was taken right before Sonya screamed her head off! She ended up looking like a zebra because we couldn't finish with her moving so much.  Then Adam had the great idea to use beard trimmers.  He thought it was that vibration that was bothering her.  So a trip to Walgreens and.....