On September 19, Stacy, "blogger," blogged about her daughter, who is 4, and how she has this ability to pick out clothes. I have giggled about this over the past couple of weeks as I have remembered how far I have come. My oldest daughter is 9, my middle 7, and my youngest 4. Each one at about the same age 3-5 yrs. old also went through this independence of picking out and "matching" their own clothes. I would have never let Madi go anywhere in some of the outfits she put on, we definetely struggled to get dressed some days. Merrill has a lot of fashion sense, and has made me proud on many occasions when refusing to wear something that doesn't match, however, she too went through this same independence, however, I was a little less controlling with her. Now Mollie is going through this phase and I think I have totally given up complete control, well, maybe not complete control. However, she has been seen IN PUBLIC in just about every combination you can imagine. Actually just this week as we were picking up Madi at our friend Colleen's house she was wearing jean capri's with butterflies, hawaiin (dress-up) shirt, sandals, ponytail AND headband (note picture). Colleen actually made the comment that she wishes she could dress like that! Knowing Colleen's good taste, I questioned the comment, and she meant look that cute in something like that! Knowing Colleen, I'm sure she would have let her daughter where it too.
Now, instead of thinking "how does that mother let her daughter where that in public" I think, "what a good mom for letting her daughter pick out her own clothes!" Because I'm sure they are saying that about me:)
Then we have the whole dress-up play clothes, my girls did and do plenty of dressing up, we have had more than one person say, "every time we stop by your house your girls have dress-up clothes on." Some days( before school) they would go directly from pajamas to dress-up. Some days they still do. Some days Mollie tries to wear dress-up wherever we go. Some days, I just give in and agree with Stacy when she said "I just swallow my pride and remember it's her heart that matters." I pray that I can teach my girls this and they learn the value of modesty (note to self, get rid of the revealing belly button hawaiin shirt) and the value of a beautiful heart. It's also good to remember they learn how to match... eventually.
Stacy, glad to hear you enjoyed the muffins! sad to hear you are on "blogging strike" :)
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Can I PLEEEEAAAASSE add the picture of Mollie wearing Brock's Native American "garb" with Erica's high heeled pink and purple dress-up shoes?!?!? I love it! and good for you...because I know how hard it is for you to see mismatched clothes and not say something! Love you much!!! Michelle
hey hey carrie! it's just sha and liv chillin in keyboarding! wanted to say hey hey so we did! that is an uber cute pic of mollie lynn. i disagree with the whole mismatched thing though. sure... it's cute now, but let me just say- it drives me (olivia) crazy how mom lets audrey wear whatever she wants (for the most part), but i was in grr-animals til fourth grade. well... maybe that's an exaggeration, but still. i guess that's all for my little rant. anyway- we made a comment!
Molly you sure are a cutie pie! I love your style girl!
Way to go Carrie for going with the flow!
Ali
I tried to leave a comment yesterday (or maybe the day before?) but it wasn't working!
LOVE the outfit. And I got a good chuckle out of your "note to self"! :)
~Stacy
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