The Day that All the Mollies Wear Blue

[naomikritzer]

Molly has developed a new method for choosing her clothes. For a while, she wanted me (or Ed) to choose her clothes for her and lay them out as outfits, so that they would match properly. Now she has decided that she wants to dress monochromatically. Each day she declares that Today is the Day All the Mollies Wear some particular color -- blue, pink, black, yellow, purple, whatever. Other unifying themes are occasionally acceptable: it can be the Day All the Mollies Wear Flowers, for instance. And today my mother took her to a play, so in the morning I pulled out a yellow dress with pink flowers on it, white tights, and a pink sweater, and she put it all on without complaining.

The problem with the monochromatic theme is when she insists that she wants her shoes and coat to match with the rest of the outfit. She has limited numbers of each, and also the spring jacket that fits her best is green, and as she doesn't have very many green clothes it is never the day that all the Mollies wear green. To make matters worse, Kiera has developed an intense fondness for this purple fleece jacket with a hood that fit Molly last year. It sort of still fits her, but not particularly well. Kiera likes it a lot, and with the sleeves rolled up, it fits her okay. They now fight over the purple jacket every time we're going to leave the house, unless it's a day that All the Mollies Wear Pink in which case the pink pullover fleece jacket is acceptable.

Molly actually really could use a new fleece jacket (that fits her properly) and I've been debating whether to try to find another purple one, so that Kiera could have the too-small-for-Molly one and Molly could have a new one. I'm thinking maybe I'll try to find a rainbow-colored one, so that regardless of the Color Theme of the Day she can't refuse to wear it. Of course, Kiera will then want THAT one.

Do mothers of boys have this problem?

Comments

[snippy]

Maybe not the same, but something like. My older one would never wear anything but cotton knit against his skin--he went through grade school wearing what were essentially cotton knit footless tights or longjohns on the bottom and short or long-sleeve tees on top.

[mrswebchik.livejournal.com]

Not quite the same. Although Philip goes through specific action hero phases. He had to dress up as Bob the Builder (including the hardhat) when he was in pre-school. Then he would wear only his Power Ranger shirts for a while. Right now we're in the army cammo (GI Joe type clothes) stage. We also have frequent times where he wants to wear the same clothes for repeated days. Melissa (who will be 5 tomorrow) is more of a Punky Brewster-type dresser, thankfully. I'd rather she look silly than be overly picky. At least I can honestly tell people she picked out her outfit herself and they don't ask any more questions.

And of course the baby wears whatever I put on her, at least until she figures out how to take it off so she can run around completely nude.

I'd try to find matching fleece jackets for the girls if I were you. One of my sisters has to do that with her two girls. I used to think it was cheesey, until she explained the practical reasoning for it.

[orthoepy.livejournal.com]

My little bird went through a stage where he needed to wear a Batman or Superman piece of clothing every day ... preferably a tshirt. Then it was essential that his socks never match (that was really cute -- all his preschool classmates would rush to check out his daily combination). Now he loves to wear white undershirts (under other shirts) ...

I love that "all the Mollies" have to wear the colors! How many Mollies are there?

[naomikritzer]

Though she has met other Mollies (there was one at a St. Paul playground she visited a few weekends ago) she's the only Molly she sees regularly.

[joykins1.livejournal.com]

I am so far fortunate that neither of mine (boy or girl) appear to care what they wear. Well, Zach doesn't like pants with a functioning fly because they're difficult for him to zip/snap/button up after he pees, but that's about it.