changing her drawers.

The other day while waiting in the drop off lane with all the other lazy parents, I happened to notice a dad walking his son into the preschool. Dad gets point one since I'm sitting on my duff while he is walking his kid into the school. But this dad, his son and the infant in his arms are all dressed in short sleeved shirts. Sure, it's supposed to be 70 degrees today but not at 8am. Every other kid walking to school accompanied by their moms are dressed warmly with jackets. I chuckled to myself thinking I bet mommy didn't see what they left the house in. My next thought was this is something my hubbie would do. Yet another mommy / daddy divider.

When hubbie gets the kids dressed in the morning he never fails to amaze me with what he puts together. Kleptobaby will be dressed too warm, too cold, always without socks. "Does her hair really need to be combed, she's only 8 months old?" he asks. I try to explain that there is no age / hair hygiene correlation but it falls on deaf ears. Now I could get picky and tell you how he had her dressed in jeans with red & blue embroidery and then a pale pink shirt.

Most kids clothing stores (Baby Gap, Gymboree, etc) usually sell their clothes in matching color themes. To me this is quite obvious just upon opening the drawers. The navy pants with the pale pink buttons goes with the pink and white striped shirt with the navy piping. Not hard. The sage green pants with the cream edging and red flower decals goes with the cream shirt with the red & green flowers on it. No advanced art degree minoring in color therory is needed here. Wrong! Hubbie has the art degree yet still can't match these items together. Man thing?

So, to avoid these fashion faux pas in the future and to help hubbie out, I've come up with a plan. In our house, the shirts go in the shirt drawer. The pants in the pants drawer. Ahhh, no longer!

Here's Kleptobaby's drawers pre-plan.

Here's Kleptobaby's drawers Hubbie proofed!



Still doesn't iron out our hair brushing differences but at least their outfits will match!

There may be other pros to the new solution. For example, on the days we are rushing out of the house, I can grab in outfit instead of hunting for matching pieces. Only time will tell if this really helps.

Now onto my sock drawer!!