We have a funny (I’m trying not to let it be annoying) dilemma in this house. Lex is a quirky kid, right? We all know this. We’ve been through some odd wardrobe situations here, like the 24/7 PJs for about a year, last summer’s pants/long sleeves only wardrobe, and the well known 4-season blue sun hat. Now it’s a shirt thing.
A few months ago he had a variety of shirts that he would wear, but as he outgrew them or they got holey, he refuses to replace them with new ones. The boy is down to just two shirts that he will wear. He has a drawer full, as I had to explain to his teacher the other day when she commented on how he wore the same two shirts over and over. Really, he has plenty of shirts. I even bought one from a thrift store (soft, gently worn) that is the SAME as one he wears only a different color. Will he wear it? Nope! Last week I even removed a bunch of shirts from his drawer thinking maybe it was just overwhelming. I left four shirts that are either a) almost identical to one he will wear with just a difference in color or something or b) a character shirt (Thomas the Train) that he likes. Any luck? Nope!
He had a total meltdown a few nights ago when he went to pick clothes for the morning and found “no clean shirts!” (except all the clean shirts in his drawer that he won’t wear!) He threw a fit and said he would not go to school in the morning. Sigh. I made sure there was a “good” shirt clean by morning. This afternoon his shirt got dirty and the other one was dirty too, so he went shirtless all afternoon! He even started the laundry to wash his shirts, checked in on it often, and switched it to the dryer. Eventually he was freezing so I proposed an early bath. He happily accepted and put on snugly PJs after that. He keeps telling us that he will wear new shirts when he is a 5yr old. We’ll see. One of the two he wears now is too small for him, but I’m debating whether or not to put it away. I’ll have to choose a time when I’m up for the battle. Or just let him wear a too small shirt until the weather warms up and HOPE he’ll wear t-shirts this summer.
Parenting, never a dull moment.