Dressing for School – Our weekday morning workout

Dressing a Two Year Old

Being two, Hannah is under the impression that she is completely capable of picking out her own clothing every morning.  Most of the time, we can agree on an outfit by giving her two choices and she gets to pick one.  Which works wonderfully; but on days when we have to get out of the door, we don’t always have the time to discuss each option and their colors, shapes, textures, and if it matches Addie’s outfit or not J.    This causes a major morning meltdown about everything.  She doesn’t like the outfit, doesn’t like breakfast, doesn’t want her hair brushed…. finally we get in the car and off to school where she is a complete angel…pick her up and its right where she left off…doesn’t like her outfit, rips her hair tie out, doesn’t like dinner…  It’s incredible that she has that much memory to literally pick up the crying exactly where she left off (and still was excellent at school). 

Last Saturday, we did allow Hannah to pick out her own outfit.  Hannah chose the below outfit:  Red leggings, a Red and Pink stripped hoodie, a bright blue t-shirt, Pink and Purple rainboots, and her Pink and White stripped headband…and our one errand was to Pet Smart and she was very excited that she got to wear it out J 

Dressing a Crawling Baby

Dressing Addie is like trying to dress…well I can’t think of a good comparison, because she is like trying to dress an active baby.  Trying to get her to sit is pretty close to impossible and lying down is completely impossible.  Addie’s has never liked to lie on her back and she flips right over, usually twisting the pants in the process.  Our general routine is her laughing and giggling and crawling away with me behind her trying to fit her pants on from the back.  Getting a shirt on usually requires grabbing arms as they are flying around looking for something to grab hold of (normally a toy; sometimes a dog’s tail, Hannah’s breakfast, or whatever else is in her reach).  

After the girls are dressed, time for hair and teeth.  And most days Hannah’s hair is pulled back nicely somehow, which is also a discussion and possible debate; as Hannah likes to leave her hair down, but she doesn’t know how to tuck it behind her ears yet so it is always in her face. 

This leaves me about 15 mins to put together a work outfit – usually includes a relatively close fitting outfit (sometimes too big, sometimes too small), minimal make up, hair usually pulled up, and nice heels.  I love heels.  They are normally the nicest part of my outfit J. 

And out the door we go! 

Good Things of the Week –

·         Addie can pull herself up to a standing position

·         Foster became an official member of our family

·         Hannah’s progress report from school was excellent

·         Hannah loves to do her after school ‘exercises’ – a fast paste round of Simon Says with jumping jacks, twirls, and leg lifts.