Obsessions

Last Sunday I took the Boy child shopping for clothes.

This is always a stressful thing for the parent units to do.  Not because the act itself is difficult, but because we know that it will result in a new obsession for the Boy child.

This time was no different.

We bought some red jeans at Old Navy.

Red jeans- they are kindof silly, but who cares.

Since it's 100 degrees out, you'd think the Boy would want to wear shorts, right?  Wrong.

He has this thing where it's shorts in winter and jeans all summer long.  He would wear jeans every single day if we let him.  In 116 degree weather, the boy wants to wear jeans.  When it's 60 degrees out, he wants to wear shorts.

ALSO, he is now obsessed with the red jeans.  He wants to wear them every single day.  In fact, today (Sunday) the FIRST thing he said when he woke up, was "Can I wear my red jeans today?"

The problem with that is-
1) It's going to be 100 degrees out today
2) He's going to be playing at the park and the jeans will get WRECKED
3) If he wears them today, he will be pissed off that he can't wear them to school tomorrow.

He had a friend spend the night last night, so despite my calm attempt to explain why he should wear shorts today, he stormed off, slammed the door, and went and hid in his closet.

Remember how I took the closet door off a couple of weeks ago?  He now scrunches up in the corner of the closet and pulls the dirty clothes hamper in front of him to hide.

Just keep swimming swimming swimming....