Leggings, Dresses and Leotards. A post about Faith.

Faith is extremely particular about what she wears.  Yesterday, she got up from her nap wearing her new pink leotard (the girls are now in a dance/gymnastics class).  We wanted to go out, and thus wanted her to wear something more appropriate, with sleeves and pants.

She of course wasn't too pleased, but after a bit of convincing acquiesced. I let her pick out some pants and a shirt. She always insists on "leggings" which are basically anything that's not jeans.  She picked some out, along with a purple shirt. 

She immediately started to get sad.  I ask her what's wrong. Well, it turns out the pants weren't like leggings, but were like jeans, and she wanted a shirt without "dees tings" .  "These things" turned out to be sleeves.  Keep in mind that it's about 30°F outside at this point. 

As a compromise, she decides to take off those clothes and instead wear a dress. It was very nice, the battle then proceeded to what to wear on her legs/feet.  I told her either socks or tights. Faith is decidedly against socks, and thus choose tights. She didn't want tights with strips (texture), only plain tights. The only pair I could find had a hole in it (on the toe), which of course she couldn't in good conscience agree to.

It may sound like this is taking a long time, that's because it did.

Finally she was ready, and she looked very nice (she finally relented and wore tights with stripes).

This determination, and refusal to bow down in the face of opposition (opposition in this case being me) has the potential to serve her very well in life. 

After we came home last night, Faith and Kate went upstairs to play. Within minutes, Faith was again in her precious pink leotard.