wail.. I just want my daughter to wear the PINK socks...

[Twiglett]

not the power rangers, the spiderman or the mutant ninja-whinger turtles .. pink socks ... PINK .. she's wearing PINK trousers and a pale shirt ... black socks with heroes DO NOT WORK

... should I get this tattooed on DH's forehead??

what does your dh not get?

Dh handed me a pair of Thomas ones this morning, and thought I was being picky when I pointed out thwy won't go with her pink and beige trainers. They were DS2's and are for 'emergency use only'

Pink???

pink nice .. pink luv-erly .. you know you like it

aren't clangers pink?

Sounds normal dh behavour to me. But watch out as dd gets older she takes your negative reaction to the way your dh dresses her as a signal that this is how she should dress. Thats his way not yours.... well thats my experience!

I quite like her eccentricities tbh .. eg yesterday underneath her cotton skirt she was wearing DS's spiderman swim-shorts over her nappy.. ROFL .. oh and a pair of wellies

just today she looked so pretty and delicate .. until you hit her ninja-whinger toes

After I had DS2,DH brought DS1 to see us wearing navy flip flops,beige socks,track suit bottoms that he had fished out of a charity shop bag and were just about mid calf length, and a too small teeshirt and coat.
Smashing!!

Soupdragons aren't pink though.

2 years and 2 days old

my favourite combo was .. swim goggles worn over a poncho style raincoat

Bwahahahaha, that cracks me up! My DD is 2 in July and she opts for the most boyish items in her wardrobe (Bob the Builder/Thomas t-shirts, jeans and wellies). If I dress her girly, she goes in her drawers and fishes out a t-shirt she likes and pulls it over her head and walks around like that, without her arms in the sleeves! She is also a fan of swimming goggles and wellies :o

My 4 year old dd2 isn't girly at all, she wears what she likes, sometimes she has a long sleeved top on and pulls a short sleeved top over the top, she wears jeans and trousers, she won;t wear a skirt. I let her get on with it, she always looks nices and matches her clothes quite well.

and she loves wellies...

My dd is three and i am no longer allowed to be part of choosing her clothes .

She chooses anything, and refuses to wear anything i say i like e.g. the nice matching outfits and pretty clothes she has.

Generally she likes to find the softest shortest mankiest trousers she can find, with the smallest oldest sock, and the tightest t-shirt possible. With a wooly hat to match! Every day of her life she spends with a hat on her head.

I used to fight and struggle to dress her nicely but now i just enjoy her eccentricity .

I think she's going to become an art student for the rest of her life, because that is what her style reminds me of.

DON'T TALK ABOUT PINK SOCKS.

The Inferiority Complex is awash with the effing blinding things.

And they aint clean either, are they MI.
Dd has attempted to leave the house (in March) totally starkers except for her wellingtons. She also likes sunglasses at all times - very Magenta de Vine. We have a picture of her looking frighteningly like a Ramone.

Not DH but FIL, used to look after DS1 a few mornings a week, couldn't get it through to him that shoes don't go with jogging bottoms.

Men are a strange breed....

DS has a huge head (seriously its enormous)
so i have to be carefull of what haircut he has so as not to emphasise that fact.

well went out one day leaving XP in charge and i came home to DS with a number 2 crew cut......2 DAYS BEFORE HIS FIRST EVER DAY AT SCHOOL!

to say i was angry is not even close. it made him look like a snowman, big round body with a hige ball on top. it was horrid. i have nothing against crew cuts in general but he looked like he had just escaped from a romanian orphangae for freakishly large headed people.

XP still doesnt get why i was so annoyed

lol
when my DH dresses our seven month old, he tends to take "sets" out of the wardrobe and mix the top of one with the bottom of another. Despite the fact that I hang them up in sets!!
And dont get me started on the cardigans he puts on her when he takes her out.
Today she has a Jasper Conran (gift, I dont buy JC!) tee-shirt and trouser set (purple and white) with a handknitted cardigan that makes her look like a sumo wrestler!
But at least her socks are white...

When Dh dresses my 2dds, I call it the "Gwen Stefani" look.

No concept of what works, things tucked in uncomfortably etc. And don't get me started on the ponytails!!!

I'm glad it's not just me then. My theory is that dh wants to be seen to be making a nice unusual choice rather than just dressing them in the outfits I would have chosen - with the result that he goes delving into the back of the wardrobe and finds things that I've put there because they are too big, presents that are horrible, don't go with anything etc - yesterday's priceless combo for ds1 was a lime-green velour v-neck in age 4-5 (he's 3) with a pair of jeans 2 inches too short and royal blue socks. And he NEVER brushes their hair. Or washes the porridge off their faces. He has this nostalgic obsession with cooking them porridge for breakfast every fragging morning because it's what his dad did - but he never cleans the kids, the table, the floor, and he doesn't put the saucepan in soak either, so when I get round to doing the washing up there it is waiting for me, stuck like sh*t to a blanket.

Sassy - are you in a magazine?

I recall reading a magazine recently with a pic of Gwen Stefanie with a quote along the lines off " we nicknamed our dd Gwen Stefanie after her dress sense".

Was it Grazia? Discussing grunge being back.

No..must confess to having plagarised that phrase (damn, rumbled, !) Previously used to call it having a Pink (the singer) moment, but Gwen seems more wholesome somehow...

Am v boring p/t teacher , nowt so glam as mag editor. do love grazia tho!

PMSL! Thought it was really spooky to hear the same comment twice in as many days.

(Sorry didn't mean to rumble you!)

Serves me right for being cheeky!

Perhaps if I were wittier/more imaginative I WOULD be a mag editor, not a teacher!