cubic cm to liters

before leaving for our thanksgiving road trip to thunder bay, i was in a mad dash to do a bit of clothes shopping for chaeli. Once again, she sprouted more then i had anticipated and with the fall weather upon us, a lot of our 4T pants looked like they were becoming capri's. And not in a good way.

we're at a very awkward stage, though. Most 4T's are too short (strangely it really depends on where i bought them, though i have a bit of a beef to pick with children's place - the regular 4T pants are way shorter then their 4T jeans - what is up with that? walmart is worse - they seem to be missing a huge gap of sizes going from toddlers to youth size - argh) and most 5T pants are a bit too long on her. I'm thankful that we recently got some hand-me downs in which the pants seemed to fit her perfectly with just enough length to last her through at least he majority of winter.

i have a confession, though. While i have no problem with hand-me downs, the type of hand-me downs seem to be either really fancy dresses or very weekend-wear athletics. Which are great... But i also allow myself to splurge on a couple of outfits (without going to the high-end brand name stores) per season that might be more then what i usually am comfortable in spending. This time, i bought her a blue, pin-stripe, button down girl's shirt with a very cool and preppy, v-neck sweater vest. The dress shirt sticks out a little both front and back. And the pattern on the sweater vest is all the rage for this fall's fashion.

today, the weather was cool enough to send her off in this outfit (worn with very dark, blue, boot-flare jeans) and you can imagine how excited i was to take her to school in something as cool as this.

much to my dismay, she looked down at her shirt, looked up and what was a pretty happy kid turned into one big, sulking face and a, "this isn't pretty at all"

what? what did she say? i couldn't believe my ears. And what happened next was me telling her that she's going to wear it because it cost a lot, is very fashionable, and sometimes looking cool is more important then looking pretty and that looking pretty isn't important enough to do ALL THE TIME and besides, there are a lot of underprivileged children who don't even get clean clothes let alone new clothes... EVER

by the time we got the school, she decided that she liked what she was wearing. Though only because all the teachers were gushing at her new outfit.

i suppose i've entered that stage where chaeli's going to decide what she's going to wear. I've never had a problem with this. Long after most parents have given up and let their kids decide what they want to wear almost on a daily basis, i've been sitting there wondering when it's going to happen in our household (because it's pretty much a given that at one point, they will do this and no one really can predict when).

luckily, i picked out some other outfits that are still cool and stylish but just enough on the girly side for her to except (a splash of pink here and one butterfly or heart there - small dabs of girliness only).

and the funniest thing is that even though she loves dressing up as a princess, she loves sharks, robots, cars, laughs whenever her spongebob game burps or looses his underpants, and rarely plays with her 'barbecue' dolls (translation - barbie dolls).

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