Picking out clothes
I didn’t know it started this early, but Jack has OPINIONS about his clothes. For one thing, if he sees one of his doot d’doo shirts*, then he wants to wear it. Nothing else will do d’doo. (I’m sorry.) He will not be persuaded otherwise.
*For the uninitiated, doot d’doo = superhero.
John and I have both taken to hiding those shirts so Jack won’t see them when we open the drawer – it’s our only hope of getting him to wear anything else. The drawer with his shirts is the top left drawer of his dresser, right under his changing pad. He can (and does) reach into it while sitting on top of the changing pad. This morning, I got him into a soft, warm, long-sleeved gray shirt, but he reached into the drawer, said “oowee”, and grabbed a red shirt. I held it up, and (my mistake), said “This is just a plain red shirt. It’s not your oowee shirt.” I put it back. So Jack reached in again and pulled out the other red shirt, which most definitely WAS his oowee shirt (fire engine). I tried “You’re already wearing a shirt. We can wear this one tomorrow.” He pulled at the sleeves of the gray shirt, the one he had on, and said, “No. Oowee.”
How can I argue with that? The kid knows what he wants to wear. It’s a good thing the t-shirts I just ordered are all covered in either fire trucks or superheroes.