I love Grace’s unabashed fashion sense. I used to try to control it and put her in the ‘perfect’ outfit each morning but now it’s absolutely one of the favorite parts of my day when I send her upstairs to get dressed only to wait with anticipation to see what she saunters down in.
Now, sometimes this completely backfires on me. One day she picked out a shirt that was clearly too small for her so I immediately tried to talk her out of it. “Grace, raise your arms up above your head…see how the shirt pulls up and you can see your belly? It’s too small for you”. “Yeah, but Mommy it goes back down again, see????” Sigh. I know at this moment any further argument on my part will be futile. Grace:1 Mommy:0
The other day though I literally beamed when she walked down the stairs. I mean, you know that mixing patterns is in this season right? Now I love a good fashion trend but it OFTEN takes me a looooooong time before I finally agree to actually try it myself (case in point, skinny jeans, ankle boots…both of which I LOVE now but simply scratched my head in confusion when they initially became the rage). Not Grace though, she’s darn brave.
Love this kid. She melts me.
