Nowadays, my toddler has started getting a special affection towards certain clothes, like, a particular t-shirt or a pair of jeans with stars on it. She wears them day in and day out until they get so faded that it’s almost impossible to guess the original color. If they get dirty and I throw them into the laundry basket, she will still manage to find them from the bottom of the pile.
One day, we were getting ready to go to someone’s place for a party or something. There began our “negotiations” about clothes. Try as I might, I was not able to convince my daughter to wear the pretty pink princess dress. My options were to give the party a skip or give in to my daughter’s selection of clothes. She finally wore a faded shirt that once was probably blue, a stained pair of jeans, purple socks inside pink shoes, and accessorized with green earrings. Shockingly, she carried it off quite nicely…it was probably because of the wide grin on her face!
I kept convincing myself that someday, she will hopefully develop a better sense of clothing and then it struck me…. Few years down the line, she’ll probably be wearing the perfect outfit with matching shoes, a fashionable purse and so on. But at that time, she won’t feel the need to hold my hand!
I guess I should just let her be… and enjoy these “colorful” times!
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:-) nicely written!
ReplyDeletedhruva has also started showing special affection recently - with his shoes. everyday, everywhere we go, he wants to wear his lion printed sandals. sometimes he also wants to wear a particular t-shirt, but then i tell him that it has become dirty and so far he listens to me in this aspect. but i am sure, its not gonna stay much longer.
These "negotations" can be stressful sometimes, at that moment, but as u said, we mommys, will start missing these, as soon as they grow out of this state.