Obi-Wan Vs. My Girls

Getting my children dressed for school is always interesting. Now that Rose wears a uniform life is sweeeet. There is not much discussion. "Do you want to wear a jumper or a skort?" Simple. Now last year at preschool the conversation was much more critical. Of course desiring my child to be independent and responsible I wanted her to get herself dressed. But, this lead to some crazy outfits: stripe shirt and stripe pants, dark pink sweater with a summer pink skirt, Christmas dress in May...you get my drift. Not wanting to totally squash her budding fashion sense I would redirect. (My Star Wars parenting advice taken from Obi-Wan Kenobi..."Those are not the droids your looking for." Translated to parent redirecting, "That's not the outfit perfect for today.") Normally my redirecting would result in a meltdown of epic proportions and I would tell my 5 year old that her outfit would be great for playing around the house. "Anyways" I would say, "You look ridiculous!" End of story.

So this year with Lily in preschool the morning dress has been a breeze. She never cares what I put on her. As long as she has two options for Iniminiminimo we are golden! But, today it happened... all going well with the normal routine... lay out two outfits (both pink) and a meltdown comes from nowhere. "No Mommy! I don't like pink. I don't want to wear pants! I want to pick out my own!" OK. Deep breath. I'm cool. "Sure Lily, let's figure something out together." After 10 minutes of stripe shirt and stripe skort combos (As well as "that's not the perfect outfit for today.") we come up with a very blue outfit...decidedly her new favorite color. Off to preschool...

Now my life being, well my life, later in the afternoon I go in to pick up Lily from her classroom. She is standing in the middle of the room very proud holding a pink balloon. "Mommy look I got the pink balloon. Everyone wanted it, but PINK is my favorite color!" Great Lily... Great.

So now knowing I have a third girl on the way I hope that I will be ahead of the game. You know wiser... sharper and ready for some Jedi mind tricks!

Obi-Wan you're my only hope...