How much Annabel dresses herself depends on how awake she is and how much we're in a hurry. This morning I was rushing to get her to daycare so I could catch my bus, and DH was asleep because he'd taken my MIL to the airport at 4:00 a.m. Annabel was barely awake, blinking bleary eyes and begging for her blankie, so I dressed her like a rag doll, though I put her in something I thought she'd like--a jumper with a Supergirl logo that I treat as a shirt because it's too short for her, but she wants to wear it because she's on a superhero kick, with jeans and her pink-and-white sneakers. When she woke up enough to notice what she's wearing, she didn't complain. At other times, we usually give her a few choices--that's one of the things we started when we were trying to encourage he language development, and the habit stuck.

Or it could be that there was one dress or something that had ruffles and rubbed, or itched, or was otherwise uncomfortable and she now associates frills with being uncomfortable.

She tells us when things itch. Though, when she first discovered I'd immediately change her clothes if she said they itched, she tried to use that as an excuse to stay in her pajamas by claiming ALL her clothes itched...

Though, when she first discovered I'd immediately change her clothes if she said they itched, she tried to use that as an excuse to stay in her pajamas by claiming ALL her clothes itched...

They crack me up with stuff like this. Em will do something, get warned not to do it, do it again, and then just as Joe or I start to go through the motions of her discipline, "I wanna go potty." cause she knows we'll take her and put off her naughty spot time for a few minutes, anyway.

Heh. The potty is Annabel's favorite sleep stalling technique.

I am accustomed to a very LARGE social circle. And OMG scared by the concept of having to create one. It's been a while. And I worry that maybe it's easier to create one in a transient place like DC, or when you're 22. Erm.

I did it! Well, kinda. My social circle is def. much smaller than what it was, but it's still a good one. It is harder, but do-able. Especially if you keep up with the kinging.

I put a lot of stock by how people are dressed. I don't mean labels or any of that shit - people can look just as awesome in Target stuff as they can in Chanel - just how they are put together.

I am with Aimee on this. (Just not on the gauchos front.)

This comic is particularly appropriate, given this discussion: [link]

My knit gauchos were my painting pants all weekend. They are hereby ruined and will never be seen by the general public again.

Meara--you will have a whole new swath of girls to kiss! Which you totally will, I am sure.

By the way, we ordered this couch [link] on Saturday. It will have mostly-olive-green-with-some-gold-flecks upholstery. It cost us $999 on sale, which is still more than I have ever spent on a piece of furniture before. We figure it is worth the investment, since with a dog and two cats, it will last us forever because we can get the cushions recovered. Still--a grand, whoa.

Heh. I was thinking of that very comic, Steph!

you will have a whole new swath of girls to kiss! Which you totally will, I am sure.

Oh, i'm definitely thinking of that part. :)

Took shower. No FedEX. BOO

My knit gauchos were my painting pants all weekend.

You say that as though you have more than the one pair of gouchos.