But you can't take the girl out of the dress! This has to be some sort of record. I have lost accurate count but I would have to say that my midget has successfully worn the same Barbie dress (at least for a portion of each day) for the last 2 weeks. She alternates this Barbie number with her fancy Christmas attire from last year which is black velvet and insanely inappropriate for most all occasions other than a Christmas party!
So back to the Barbie number--some days it is on dawn to dusk. Others she actually sleeps in the thing. It is GROSS. It has been worn to school and laden in marker. The bottom portion has been stepped on, sat on, dragged & successfully torn. Worn to dinner, the grocery, the sand box...you name it, she's worn it there and it has accumulated a little bit of each place on its person. This is getting a little embarrassing. On one hand I think, pick your battles. But on the other hand I am weary that she may be losing friends because of her obsession with this gown. She wears the matching plastic heels as well and has successfully cracked both of them to the point of no longer being safe for everyday wear...I truly don't think they were ever actually SAFE to wear but that is a different story altogether. Any child-sized, elevated footwear for a 3 year old has to be taken into serious question. And I digress. I guess I simply must hope that the immanent cold weather months will change her fixation to another article of clothing. Perhaps there will be some colossal breech of etiquette or decorum and I will be "forced" to remove said "ensemble," as she has come to call it, and confiscate it until she forgets it ever existed? Is this possible? Could she ever forget about something so beloved? A mom can hope!
you need to post a pic of our girl in said "ensemble" and too funny that she calls it that....this girl is too much!!!
ReplyDeleteOnce again your daughter and I are cut of the same cloth. I too had a dress that I refused to take off, wore it until i was MUCH too large for it. Think of it as another "binky". And know that there will be a day, when she wants or dare I say NEEDS new dresses all the time. You will find yourself wishing for the days when just one did the job ;)
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