What the Kids Are Wearing

Important disclaimer: I recognize that by poking fun at my husband’s fashion sense in this post I am exposing myself as a complete ingrate. He gets one or both of the boys dressed every morning, and I love him for it. It’s just that sometimes, well . . .

This morning we were headed over to a friend’s house to run through the sprinkler, so I decided that Simon should wear his swim trunks to avoid an unnecessary change. Believe it or not, it’s not always that fun to get a two-year-old dressed. I laid out his yellow-and-blue-striped trunks for him and went to get Ian dressed (that I dressed Ian today will become important later in the story). When Simon came downstairs, I was pretty sure we had finally come to the developmental stage where he insists on picking out his own clothes (a stage that I am totally looking forward to, by the way, because I picture myself as one of those moms who doesn’t interfere and lets her young child be seen in public in ridiculous getups while it’s still so darn cute. We’ll see how that plays out when the time comes). But as I was to discover, we’re not there yet; this outfit was Daddy’s doing:

Now, in Jason’s defense, Simon really doesn’t have any shirts that would go with those shorts, and in fact I didn’t pick out a shirt for him because I was kind of at a loss myself for how to pair them. What actually cracks me up about this outfit, though, is that after he put it on, Jason decided it “worked” because of the horizontal stripes in both.

We then turned our attention to Ian’s outfit. I went out of my way to find the plaid shorts this morning because they’re my favorites. I like the mismatched patterns and deliberately put this outfit together because I think it’s totally cute.

Jason says that I have a double standard. Maybe so, but I’ll stand by it.

So what do you think? (And don’t let this influence you or anything, but Simon already took Jason’s side this morning in an unrelated light-hearted dispute, so I’m feeling a little fragile. But like I said, don’t let that sway you to my already obviously right point of view.)