I put Lumpyhead in a striped polo shirt and navy shorts yesterday and sent him off to school. The shorts fit when Lumpyhead wore a pull-up or diaper - but apparently do not fit over underpants. By the time he walked through the front door of school, his pants were around his ankles. Not exactly the Young Scholar statement I was going for.
Bump changed him into the backup outfit I packed that morning: plaid shorts and an orange tee shirt.
Then Lumpyhead played with the water table, soaking his orange tee shirt and requiring a change back into the striped polo shirt.
It was . . . a whole lot of look.
I'm sorry I didn't get a photo, but Pete took one look at Lumpyhead on the playground and said to Bump, "I guess you didn't dress him today, huh?"
Yep. My son shows up in a ridiculous outfit and one of my best friends assumes I put him in it.
Which I did, but not on purpose.
5 comments:
Pete's comment is more about Bump's excess of taste than your lack of it.
Kudos for having the back up outfit.
Another tip, courtesy of my experience in this area: if you, like me, keep the same backup outfit in your kid's backpack until it's needed, make sure you check it regularly so that it's weather-appropriate. Otherwise your child's fall-themed photo will inevitably be taken while she is wearing a pink summer dress that clashes with the pumpkins.
I don't bother coodinating my kid's outfits. As long as they fit and are weather-appropriate and activity-appropriate, she's gonna look bloody cute anyway. It's only us grownups whose cute-ness depends on wearing the right clothes.
My kid is often dressed in bright red track pants with the dorky ankle things and some unmatched dress shirt.
It's a miracle I don't top it off with black socks and sandals everyday.
I have this problem on the regular, and it's usually when we have someplace to be for dinner right at the end of the day (and I haven't had the foresight to bring a true coordinated spare outfit along).
Sometimes I think I should buy a whole bunch of black leggings, t-shirts, and socks and just send those to school as the spare outfit. Black goes with everything, right?
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