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My DD (2.5, possible asd, severe learning delays) has decided to start a new trend bt wearing bright yellow swimming goggles (around her neck) and a tweed hat for the past week I can only pry them off her once she has gone to sleep! From reading this thread, I guess it's the 1st in a long line of crazy combinations I'm going to have to 'live' with over the coming years !
Oh, I love this thread! Orange tshirts for DS everywhere - no jumper. But to go to school - whatever the weather - winter coat zipped up to the neck and hood a la Yeti!
Dd's always in her Piedro boots, she looked like a bit of a trend setter yesterday in her Cinderella dressing up outfit and big boots! A bit like a punk fairy...
She tends to have big growth spurts almost overnight too, so she's either in stuff that's too short, or her bottom is on show because she's slim and it's too big on the waist
For me, anything low cut or short is out. I can't do heels now either, teetering about trying to look elegant whilst hauling dd about isn't practical.
I daren't let DH help dress DS(6)We'll have stripes and camouflage and all manner of clashing colours.We'll have long sleeved tops and shorts on both of them. Until I had DS, I had to pair up all Dh's ties and shirts. Now we have some very interesting combos.DS is much more of a diva and has quite a good sense of style thankfully.
Fashion rules.. like my boy going to bed in pink and other pastel coloured tights every night you mean? Which is more shocking the the backwards all-in-ones I'm sure..
bike shorts only for my boy, funny how he is able to undress himself when its an item he doesn't like. Ok, hes boy in lycra, I'm over it already. I'm fighting hard agaist his passion for one T-shirt in particualr. Not that I dislike it, just that I want to wash it somtimes.
My DD insists on wearing her coat whenever we go out the front door, regardless of whether it's 2 degrees or 32 degrees. Hood up and all. I got some funny looks at nursery this week as she went in in her trousers, boots and hooded fleecy coat as all the other children were in shorts, sandals and T-shirts
She won't wear shorts as she likes her legs covered, and can't wear sandals/Doodles as she needs supportive boots or shoes to wear her insoles in.
As for me, I don't wear skirts as I spend most of the day on the floor, and can only wear things once as they get covered in food/dribble/snot - hers not mine I hasten to add!!
i have dd2 (nt) who is going through a phase of stripping pjs off after being put to bed - no idea what it is about. Dd1 had an upset night last night and when I went in to check on her I noticed dd2 had taken her pjs off and hung them off the post of her bed This morning she simply got up and put them back on to have breakfast.
dd doesn't wear shoes. She cant walk and never will so I don't see the point. But the amount of people who feel the need to comment or say something crass like 'I bet you miss dressing her up in pretty shoes' argh. As for me, my left nork is covered with a drool patch if dd sits on me and my left shoulder by dribble and the odd puke if I carry her up over my shoulder, Looks like a sick bird passed by
Talking of front zips ds does't like them done up on trousers (perhaps he likes the draft)!! So its either pullup style trews (hard to get now he is so tall)or risk of flashing! If I have failed to remove a label he is likely to take a radical approach with scissors so he flashes at the back sometimes as well. He has a similar approach to adjustable elastic!
fio dd was doing that at her birthday party. she was wearing a denim dress that did up with poppers up the front. silly mum called it a stripper dress...............
DS1 has decided he likes hats these days. He doesn't care if it fits. He thinks nothing of walking around the local big shopping centre wearing denim cap that we bought him 4 years ago, when he was still a baby. It barely fits him, but he doesn't care. At home, he wears a procession of assorted hats, footwear and the odd sweatshirt with no concern for seasonality or matching. I picked him up from nursery a few weeks ago and found him sat at the computer wearing a top hat. The day before, his teachers had found him wearing an alice band he'd "borrowed" from one of the girls.
The ultimate has to be discovering that he'd slept in his Crocs, mind!
my boy is surprisingly cool and funky but does have a quirk I love. As soon as he is relaxed at home for the day ( after school or after all scheduled activities at the weekend) he then gets straight into his jammies and slippers. He wears those until bedtime when he takes them off to sleep naked . Always makes me smile to see him take his jammies off to go to bed. I think he wants the 'slip into something more comfortable' outfit for the evening. Does anyone know where I can pick up a smoking jacket a la Noel Coward ?
DD3 likes to explore the contents of her nappy In winter she's has trousers or tights on (with her vest tucked in!) so we get round it. But in summer I think she looks so cute in her school uniform summer dress with white ankle socks. To make the nappy inaccessible to her, she has underneath big black cycling shorts! It always makes me laugh when she's on a climbing frame, to see her big black bum under her checked dress. It does the trick though.
Eidsvold, I like the pink ribbon in hat idea but we don't need that in our family as my boys have committed the fashion crime of being born with red hair! It does make them easy to spot in a crowd tho'. DS2 has started chewing his collars ATM, so all his summer wardrobe is hand me downs or ebay purchases, it is less stressful than him ruining new stuff, am considering getting (or making) some of those bandana/bib combo's to hide the dribble patch. DS2 used to look like a highland cow due to his hatred of hair cuts/ brushing but he is more tolerant these days and therefore tidier.
I am by nature a scruff but i get round it by always pretending I have just come from digging my allotment if I turn up at school looking particularly untidy.
Ds has a thing about socks too and wears them to bed! I am usually able to exchange them for clean the next day! If he gets one wet he'll find a dry one so often has different coloured sockes on.
DS3's latest "thing" is that he has to have socks on at all times. I thought it was really good at first when he was bringing me his socks in the morning and was getting him to PECs for them. But now it has become a complete obsession and he screams when I try and take them off at bedtime and scrunches up his toes and if I do succeed in getting them off, he goes and gets another pair (without PECSing for them ).
He also has an appalling haircut because he won't sit still. One of the more hippy of the dads at school said he liked DS3's hair - I nearly swooned at his feet there and then!
Ds2 has started wearing ankle boots with an insole to help correct his posture, but now the summer has come and he is in shorts, he looks permanently as if he is about to go hiking.
Having searched everywhere for black soft shorts with an elasticated waistband for school, I gave up and cut the bottoms off Ds2's old school jogging bottoms. However my sewing's not the best so they don't bear close examination. However as Dh pointed out, if they have to take Ds2's shorts off at school, he doubts it'll be the seams that they are worrying about .
I also need to be able to run, squeeze into small places, climb up on playgrounds to perform rescues etc and people ask me why I'm always in trousers!
she is also the only one in her class with a bright pink ribbon around her school hat - that way they can spot her in the playground and know where she is at a glance - rather than searching through a see of navy hats.
i tend to do that even though dd1 is getting better - I have shoes to run in. Dd1 wears bright blue trainers to school as they are the only ones that fit her orthotics in and are light enough for her to wear without getting exhausted.
Talking of footwear - I think it is me that breaks the fashion rules in our house. I need to be able to run - to catch ds who has no sense of danger and can move faster than Mercury. In winter its trainers (acceptable), in summer I have this really awful pair of 'comfort' maryjanes-- ( and yes they are awful to look at!). Ds has gone through the knee of his favorite trousers and they are too short - but he insists on wearing them.
dd has a new pair of sandals but her feet would get cold. so I have put her in socks. oh dear a fashion rule broken. own up what rules do you have to break as your dc refuses to abide by the rules (light hearted thread)
I can only pry them off her once she has gone to sleep! 
