Mr. Destructo is now a three year old and for the sake of my sanity, I'm hoping this means that he has left the "terrible two's" far behind.  (please don't burst my happy thought with the truth, thank you) I have to admit to noticing an increase in his "independence", meaning he yells a lot "I can do it BY MYSELF"!!!  One thing this relates to in particular is his wanting to pick out his own clothes.  Funny part about this is that my 6 year old princess still shows no signs of wanting to dress herself unless it is related to the comfort. In other words, if it pinches, hangs too low, rides up, scratches, digs or pulls, it's not going to be worn, ever.  Anyway...Mr. Destructo has decided that the best outfit to wear is a pair of "scratchy pants" and some kind of sports jersey. My job has now become trying to figure out how to keep one of the three jerseys that he has, clean.  This wouldn't be a terribly hard task if he didn't rotate through all of them most days.   This is how it works...we get him dressed in the morning;  OK who am I kidding, he gets dressed at some point during the day, usually after he is done running around naked (or if he is going to hang with his buddies, then he has to try to dress like them...) and then usually every hour or so, he makes a trip into his closet and pulls down 11 things until he finds the new "scratchy pants" and jersey he is going to wear.  I'm sure your all just dying to know what "scratchy pants" are...it's really any kind of sweat pant that feels slick and soft...aparently they even make great jammies...I guess  I should like his decision to sleep in them too, since this does eliminate a pair of jammie pants.???

       Color has no bearing on his choices for the day, and neither does what he has worn most recently; I know this should not matter to me either, but to be honest, I am a little worried about what the other mommies of preschoolers will be thinking this year.  I can picture it now, they will be dropping off their perfectly primped and put together little jean wearing angels and here will march in my oh so handsome but randomly dresses man.  I guess I can only hope he does not decide to wear his "just like Justin Beiber" clothes (thats another story for another day)  OK, I'll just tell  you a little bit about that...my kids love two of his songs, and so with each one, he has to go get the outfit that most closely resembles Justins.  This means a leather jacket for "Never say Never", and a military style shirt and a dog tag for "Baby"...nuff said.

     You know when kids wear batman costumes in public?  I kinda like that because you know for sure that the mom absultly did NOT go to the closet that moring and say "here honey, why don't you be batman today"???  The problem with my dudes clothing choices is that you would look and wonder what "what in the h#%$& was mom thinking when she picked out red and black sweats to go with a green and yellow baseball jersey"???

     Lucky for me, he is so deliciously yummy, with eyes that could stop a runaway train (AKA a raging mother)...and so, I will continue to let him dress himself; as a future football player, or an up and coming rock star because he loves it....hey, at least the tu-tu's are gone!

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