Friday, May 19, 2006
Grumpy Free Socks
With three little ones in our home, each of them getting dressed each day is quite the experience. You try to let the boys (aged 4 and 5) break out on their own by selecting their own outfits. It can make for quite the colour clash.
The latest is Parker who has now insisted on dressing for school the night before. He is adamant that he can save himself a pile of time in the early hours by not having to be bothered with getting dressed for school. I suggested putting on five outfits and that way he could just peel off a layer each day and be ready for the next. Mom wasn’t too happy with that suggestion as Parker thought it was a great idea.
Tanner takes the opposite approach. He tries to stay in his pajamas all day so that he's not bothered with it come bedtime.
Our daughter Mackenzie has started a new dressing option. My little grade-two-goober felt that she was waking up grumpy each morning. In discussions with her little friend Edward, he suggested that she wear socks to bed each night and that she surely would not be grumpy in the morning. Not the best habit to develop when the temperature is reaching 30 degrees each day but she now claims to be grumpy-free each morning.
The latest is Parker who has now insisted on dressing for school the night before. He is adamant that he can save himself a pile of time in the early hours by not having to be bothered with getting dressed for school. I suggested putting on five outfits and that way he could just peel off a layer each day and be ready for the next. Mom wasn’t too happy with that suggestion as Parker thought it was a great idea.
Tanner takes the opposite approach. He tries to stay in his pajamas all day so that he's not bothered with it come bedtime.
Our daughter Mackenzie has started a new dressing option. My little grade-two-goober felt that she was waking up grumpy each morning. In discussions with her little friend Edward, he suggested that she wear socks to bed each night and that she surely would not be grumpy in the morning. Not the best habit to develop when the temperature is reaching 30 degrees each day but she now claims to be grumpy-free each morning.
