October 12, 2007
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PICTURE DAY!
Today is the dreaded picture day. On this day, more then any other, I see the similarities between my daughter and her Aunt D.
This morning started out well. Breakfast was eaten, teeth were brushed, and then it was decision time. I wanted her to wear the pink lacy dress shirt, she wanted the grey “All my grandparents brought me was this t-shirt” with the hole in the hem.
Charlie, always resigned to his fate, grabbed his striped cotton v-neck and pulled it over his t-shirt “Just wear it Is, it’s only for one day.” He said taking a poke at her as he walked by.
I forced her into the shirt, pulling the pink cotton over her head exposing a stubborn brow and a lip large enough to perch a parrot on. “I hate it! Why can’t I pick what I wear?!” she shouted as I stubbornly continued to tug the tiny pearl buttons through their holes. “There!” I said tightening the little pink belt and stepping back to view my handy work. A beautiful little girl in jeans and a lacy pink shirt and a face that looked like she was sucking lemons.
“Okay!” I can’t help laughing “What do you want to wear?”
We spent five minutes sorting through the drawer I said “no” to the baby blue sweatshirt, she said “no” to the white cotton pullover with the tie back, I said BIG “NO!” to the rainbow tiedye art shirt that is frayed on the sleeves, I thought I threw that away? I did, she had pulled it from the rag bucket. Finally it is settled she pulls on the black t-shirt sporting glitter and a screen print of Animal from the Muppets.
As we head for the door satisfied with our compromise she grabbed the hot pick cardigan with mismatched buttons and a string trailing from the back that if pulled would put the whole sweater in a pile on the floor. taking a deep breath, “Okay, but please take it off before the pictures?” I say letting out a sigh.
”I will.” She said grinning a gleam in her eye that says I will be seeing the sweater in my picture packages.
Yes, she is very much like my little sister, she knows what she wants and is determined to the end.
Comments (27)
your lucky you only had to do it on picture day i have to do it every day my 8 yr old thinks she is supposed to wear summer clothes to school all year, its fall now dear!!!!! no, no and no, i wait until their gone and take out all the clothes i dont like and hide them it makes the fight easier for us lol i hope your sch pics come out great ours never do and i buy them anyway.
sounds like you had a great start to your day. when do the pics come back?
The wardrobe, for me, is one of those things that didn’t make the cut in the “fight the battles that have to be faught and let the rest go” decision. My kid has beautiful things, cute things, sporty things and still most days she leaves the house looking like she spent the night in the dumpster. And she wears her shoes on the wrong feet intentionally. I’ve even observed when we buy shoes, she tries them on that way just to make sure they’ll be comfortable on the wrong feet. I figure eventually peer pressue will cure some of it. I had to draw the line on one thing though: “you must wear panties with a dress.”
RYC: Thanks
good for her. pictures are for memories and don’t you want to ‘remember’ her as she really was/is? i hate the contrivedness of most pics.
Hope it turns out beautiful
My answer to that is “because I said so.”
It’s going to be the picture that ten years from now makes you smile because you’ll remember the morning before it was taken. Wonderful!
great story… print this and stick it with the pictures when they arrive
hahahaha. Reminds me of my 5th grade pictures. My mom demanded that I wear a turquoise long dress (it was the 70′s) and I maintained that I didn’t need to wear a dress because they only take a picture from the shoulders up. She was adamant about the dress, so I wore it — with purple converse and matching tube socks.
I wore what my Mom wanted one year; and TOTALLY hated it… scratchy lace collar and all. I see that picture (I think it was from first grade); and my neck starts to itch…
I suggest you start early next time, go shopping a week or so before the picture day to find something you BOTH can love and save it special just for picture day. After that, she can wear holes in it to her heart’s content! Yeah, I know, good theory; but I know the personality type you’re talking about… probably won’t work.
Kids are a lot of work.
I hate picture days. My kids, at least, will let me pick their clothes on that day. I actually got Michael’s pictures back yesterday (they had theirs taken last month) and they came out pretty good this year. One down, one to go (Katy’s are next month).
That is SO funny! What a great story; I like how you protrayed you and your daughter at odds but still very respectful and loving toward each another! You should print this story out and put if next to the picture in the scrapbook so you’ll always have it. My sister has a 26 month old little girl and she is constantly saying that her daughter is a carbon copy of me…and she really is! She always says “somehow I had your baby”. I guess it’s because sisters know how to relate/interect with each other
I LOVE your school bus picture!
Yeah she is a little me alright. NO DOUBT!
lip large enough to perch a parrot on, boy that was a powerful lip indeed………I have seen many of those in my days and they only get worse before they get better.
is she alittle stinker?
cutie
And I still live!!!! Your little girl sound so cute.
AHHH!!! you just reminded me that picture day is next week for ET!!!
can’t wait to hear how they turn out!!!
ttfn…
LMFAO, she’s a young lady who knows where she’s going. 3 cheers for her *laughs madly*
We don’t have that problem here in the UK as kids must wear uniforms for school.
oh my gosh how funny is that!!! i have that same argument with my youngest every time we get ready to go to church. though the words aren’t actually said…. “but mom, why can’t i wear the daisy duke looking shorts and the tank top.” after much eye rolling and “oh mom” saying, we usually come to some sort of compromise. your story reminds me of my youngest’s 3rd grade pictures (she is now almost 14!! ahhhhh!!!!). we fussed and argued over what she was going to wear to school on picture day, and finally came to a compromise. she had that same little gleam in her eye when she left as your daughter did… when the pictures came back, what did i find? that she had borrowed a shirt from a friend of hers to wear in the pictures that was the similar to the one she was fighting to wear! i still giggle every time i look at those pics!!!
LOL! You should have posted pics with her gestures! Would have made a great scrap book. I bet her school pics. will be fantabuluss!
Sounds like my 7 yr old daughter
Sounds like me when I was younger. Enjoy the ride.
so cute!
Sshesh,are you sure it is your sister that she is like and not you???/
My worst school pic is from when I wore what I wanted.