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Monday, September 22, 2008

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The Parent Bloggers Network is doing a blog blast on interesting outfits your children have put together sponsored by Mix 'n Match, Pop 'n Swap. With a five year old and a two year old, I've seen my share of "creative" outfits!

Today my husband and I spent a good hour going through our boys clothes while they were watching a movie. Why did it take so long? The main reason is that my older son (OS)refuses to conform. Why wear long sleeve t-shirts when it's cold out when you can wear them when it's in the 90's outside? I got comments from his preschool teacher last year "I'm concerned that OS is cold." and comments from his camp counselors this summer, "I'm concerned that OS is too warm". It's such a fine line because I want OS to be able to pick out his own outfits. He has plenty of appropriate seasonal clothes to wear. At the same time, I do like to make sure that in the colder weather there are a few t-shirts in his dresser so that he can dress in layers and that there are a few long sleeve shirts in his dresser during the summer for the same reason. This is not even taking into account the clothes that are too small that he just loves despite the fact he looks like he just stepped out of Flashdance. Of course my younger son (YS) wants to dress just like his older brother.

This afternoon my husband and I removed all the too small clothes. We also made sure to only put out a few t-shits, but only a few t-shirts just in case. This way he can feel free to create his own outfits, but at the same time there's a limit to how many times he can wear short sleeve shirts in a week particularly at the rate that I do laundry. Plus I removed all the shorts! Let's just hope he doesn't figure out that the off season clothes are stored in bins in our basement!

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