(*I found this in my drafts folder from mid-October… it was funny to read, and I’ll add a little commentary to the end…)<\/p>\n
It was a lovely, rainy, cool fall day here.\u00a0 Though it’s mid-October, our past couple weeks have been HOT, like mid 80’s.\u00a0 Analise has had “fashion” problems every morning, and I’m not sure how we’re going to make it through the winter.\u00a0 She doesn’t want to wear anything but dresses.\u00a0 She had plenty of summer dresses, and most of the twirled.\u00a0 But I’ve put away most of the summer clothes, because it’s supposed to be fall, along with the fact that she’s had a growth spurt and most of them are too short.\u00a0 So we quickly wear out our short supply of appropriate warm-weather dresses before they’re clean again, and then we have problems.<\/p>\n
She picks out the winter dresses, like corduroy, denim and long sleeves.\u00a0 And though it’s fine in the coolish-mornings, by the time she goes out to the playground at noon and it’s 85, she’ll be overheated.\u00a0 When I pick her up at 1:30, she’s always red-faced and sweaty anyway.\u00a0 Not going to work.\u00a0 So I point her towards her drawer of skirts and tops, or I pick out a cute shirt and pants.\u00a0 No way.\u00a0 She’s been so upset these past few mornings at her lack of options, it’s hard to believe clothing is causing such a fuss.\u00a0 Ug.\u00a0 Maybe fall will come soon so she can start wearing the other dresses hanging in her closet.\u00a0 And maybe I shouldn’t bother getting her anything that ISN’T a dress for the spring and size 5T.\u00a0 Unless, of course, she determines she doesn’t want to wear dresses any more.\u00a0 Then we’d be in trouble!<\/p>\n
**update from mid-January:\u00a0 We’re still having the same dilemma.\u00a0 It’s the dead of winter, which, in Alabama, means it can be in the 20’s in the morning when Analise goes to school and still in the 40-50’s by afternoon.\u00a0 And they still go outside to play some days.\u00a0 So we’ve been wearing the same dresses and tights all winter, and they’re wearing thing.\u00a0 And short.\u00a0 She’s sprouted a bit in the last couple months so that nearly all her 4T dresses (which is nearly everything!) are too short.\u00a0 So Brian’s mom scoured the secondhand store clearance racks and found a few dresses to get us through to spring.\u00a0 But, like I said in October, looks like I should ONLY be buying her dresses, and specifically ones that TWIRL, in 5T when the consignment sales start next month!\u00a0 The fashion dilemmas of a 4 year-old girl… I can only imagine the issues we’ll have down the road!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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