Down with the kids

I was keen to encourage Big Sis to dress herself and she has embraced it with both hands! It’s been an interesting process teaching her appropriate clothing for weather conditions and events.

It’s Springtime here and quite under her own volition she has developed her own trans- seasonal style. She wears a long sleeve top and trousers with a skirt and t-shirt over the top. Depending on the random combination selected she can look quite funky!

Sometimes she gets to the end and puts her Snow White dress over the top of it all. I think she’s noticed that a little girl dressed as Snow White gets lots of attention - something Big Sis likes!

The main issue at the moment is that she is only wearing about 30% of her clothes because everything has to be pink, or ‘approximately pink’. I say ‘approximately pink’ because on some days lilac or a rosy purple seems to be tolerated. It reminds me of those celebrities that only eat a particular coloured food. These days I read something like “Demi Moore only eats food that is green or purple” and I think - “What is she, 4 years old?”

Anyway, I’m riding out the pink fixation without comment - I figure she has to grow out of it and it probably isn’t worth an hour long argument every morning. Choose your battle, as they say in the kids’ instruction manuals.

Little Bro is observing all this with interest and although he doesn’t insist on choosing his clothes or dressing himself he has developed his own particular preferences. Being a boy they tend to be around comfort rather than fashion or colour.

He refuses to wear belts and as soon as he sees one produced hides his head in his hands and screams - “Tight!”

This morning I put him in a pair of tracksuit pants and he exclaimed loudly “Aaaah, comfy!”