Rachel has definite opinions about what she likes and doesn't like to wear.
*She loves "soft pants" and dislikes jeans. Everytime I put jeans on her, she complains. She wears them, but she complains. She has a ton of jeans and only so many soft pants, so I can't eliminate jeans from her wardrobe. I tell her she just has to "put up with it." (This is a phrase I've had to use a lot with her lately--she's learned to put up with jeans, with static-y hair, and with other annoying things that can't be helped. The other day I said I had a headache and she said, "Mom, maybe you should just put up with it.")
*She loves wearing dresses. She only wears them to church, but she loves Sundays just because she gets to wear a dress. Every week at some point she says, "Everyone will think I look SO beautiful!"
*She likes to match, and she likes colors. Yesterday I put khaki pants on her for the first time (I had just gotten them on clearance for $1.24--I realized after I got them home that the reason they were $1.24 was because there was an ink stain on them! With little effort, though, I got the stain out, and they're great pants for $1.24!). She wasn't paying attention as I got her dressed, but five minutes later she finally noticed what she had on. "Mom," she called, "I don't like these pants!" I asked her why. "Because.....they're not.....COLORFUL!" Then she added, "They're TAN! I don't want to match the color of our house!"
When we're in the stores, she oohs and aahs over dresses I really don't like (my tastes are simple, classic, tailored....not like what you find in the store these days much at all!). I know that one of these days we will probably have disagreements about what she wears. Thankfully, although she has an opinion, they aren't strong enough at this point that we've battled (the soft pant battle is the biggest, but that's not really more than, "I don't want to wear jeans. I want soft pants," and I respond, "You need to wear jeans today. Just put up with them," and she does.)
CLASSIC! "I don't want to match the color of our house!" Hilarious! I can just hear it. Kaden picks out and dresses himself every morning and he has favorites too. He also likes soft pants (but doesn't hate jeans). All winter I had to remind him to wear a VARIETY of things from his drawer, not just the same couple outfits every week. Marin is going to side with Rach on the dresses! She ooohs and aaughs at them and knows it must be a "Bible Study day" or church is she's getting to wear one. :o) This post made me smile! Love yoU!
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