He’s Creative, Not Weird

So as I said in this evening’s earlier post, we went out to dinner.  We asked the children 9,756, 348 times to go put on their shoes.  Finally, I went in to see what the hell The Bandit was doing in there and this is what I overheard him say to himself, “The cantaloupe has horns.” ???????  That sounds like something from a really bad spy movie doesn’t it?  I have no idea what his fertile imagination was cooking up there.  Possibly it had to do with hot lava.  Hey, speaking of “hot lava”, we are getting ready to redo our front yard.  My Honey was pricing gravel and river rock with my brother-in-law this weekend.  I voted loudly for the lava rock.  I just can’t wait to find out what the boy would think of that.

Anyway, this is what The Bandit planned to wear to the restaurant: Red shiny warm up pants, a green Incredible Hulk t-shirt, cowboy boots, a cowboy hat, Batman socks and no underwear.  I was OK with everything except the boots.  Well, and the no underwear thing, but I found out about that later.  I remember once upon a time, I dressed this boy in the most adorable and hip outfits.  Now I’m just happy he’s mostly covered.  It was much easier before he had opinions. 

So, we had a noisy negotiation about the shoes and I finally convinced him of flip flops.  He really wanted to keep the Batman socks so I gave him a pair of Adidas slide sandals.  He father said, “No” on the new shoes and took away the hat.

I don’t know about you, but I think my husband is stifling him.  Don’t you agree?  Or is it that I’ve just given up?  Either way, he’s a weird kid.  Thank God he’s cute, too.