I thought dressing boys would be easy. What could be difficult about dressing a little boy? Boys shoes are cool, throw on some painter jeans and a hip rock n roll graphic tee and you are set. Easy cheesy- right? Sure, if you have an easy going, "whatever" kind of child, but I most certainly don't.
The hat and sunglasses. We can never leave the house without the hat and the sunglasses. Therefore I have two Milwaukee Brewer baseball caps in my radar at all times so if one gets left at school or in his dad's car we can still function. Same goes with the sunglasses. In the photo above, little man is modeling the oh-so-last-years Thomas the Train model. We have since moved on to hot wheels sunglasses; we have at least six pair.
Then there are the shirts: Only shirts with cars, trucks or select sporting activities are approved and for some reason, the one's he really loves the best are the hand me downs from older cousins which are usually over-worn and don't fit. For the entire duration of my hospital stay this summer he wore this shirt: It was two sizes too big, hung down to almost his knees and was covered with Nascars AND Disney characters. Good God. (You don't see sunglasses in this photo but trust me, they were there).
Forget picture day, special occasions or holidays. I'm entirely at the mercy of this child's whims. I know what you must be thinking, I could surely demand that he wear the adorable Old Navy tees I lovingly chose for him with his super excellent Umi kicks, but I gave up on that a long time ago. We have much bigger battles to fight. Clothing has been officially removed from the negotiating table. If he wants to wear an ill-fitting dingy tee shirt with a monster truck on it, so be it.
When I do see cute little boys dressed all in Gap Kids finest I feel a little envy, but then I remind myself that all that? It's really for the parents. A three year old doesn't know that those brown socks don't match the blue Nascar shirt, but they do know when they feel some sense of pride in choosing what to wear and putting it on all by themselves.
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